NET WINS Podcast

<p>His full name is Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal. The nicknames accumulated across his career the way championships did: Shaq. The Big Aristotle. The Big Diesel. Shaq Daddy. The Big Shamrock. Superman. He gave himself most...

<p>For more like this netwins.substack.com</p><p>The Net Wins formula is a backward-looking instrument. It counts what happened. It has no mechanism for what should have happened, what would have happened, what was on...

<p>For more articles like this: netwins.substack.com</p><p>There is a version of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander that the league did not see coming. Not because he lacked talent, everyone who watched him at Kentucky in 2017-18...

<p>netwins.substack.com</p><p>The Net Wins formula is a career instrument. It rewards players who accumulate seasons, who build combined totals over time, who sustain their excellence across years rather than flashing...

<p>netwins.substack.com</p><p>There is a detail about Michael Jordan that gets lost in the mythology. Before he became the most competitive athlete of his generation, before the six championships and the tongue wag and...

<p>netwins.substack.com</p><p>The greatest individual season in NBA history is not the one you think it is.</p><p>The Net Wins formula measures how much a player’s statistical contributions converted into actual wins...

<p></p><p>netwins.substack.com</p><p>There is a version of Earvin Johnson that the highlights show you. The no-look passes. The fast break finishes. The smile that arrived before the play was even over. The showmanship...

<p>netwins.substack.com</p><p>The question of which USA Olympic basketball team was the best is usually answered by reputation. The 1992 Dream Team wins by default because it was the first, because it had Jordan and...

<p>netwins.substack.com</p><p>Before the NBA was what it is today, it was in serious trouble.</p><p>In 1979, the league was broadcasting its own Finals on tape delay. Attendance was declining. The drug problems that...

<p>netwins.substack.com</p><p>Every ranking system that tries to evaluate Julius Erving eventually hits the same wall.</p><p>The NBA numbers are excellent but incomplete. He played 11 NBA seasons with the Philadelphia...

<p></p><p>netwins.substack.com</p><p>No result in this database is more uncomfortable to write about than this one.</p><p>Allen Iverson is one of the most compelling players in NBA history. He is a Hall of Famer, a...

<p>netwins.substack.com</p><p>No result in this entire database generates more argument than this one.</p><p>When the Net Wins formula was first posted on Reddit, the response was immediate and overwhelming. Thousands...

<p>netwins.substack.com</p><p>Every generation forgets its own giants.</p><p>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. He won six MVP awards, more than anyone in the history of the league. He played...

<p>The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inducts its class every September. The process is notoriously opaque — committee-driven, lobbying-dependent, and shaped as much by narrative as by numbers. Players who defined...

<p>netwins.substack.com</p><p>In a recent discussion on r/NBATalk, a reader posed a fascinating mathematical challenge to the Net Wins formula.</p><p>The argument was simple: If Tim Duncan puts up the exact same elite...