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The Crooning Loon
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Coast-to-Coast NBA Fantasy Co-Founder | Houston Rockets Lifer | Data Science | Film Photography | Doom Metal | MS Neuroscience | ex-Radio Host, Current Yapper

on a double digit streak peeling dvd stickers off fully intact. 🇵🇷
Fox/Vassell 📈 (short-term, but will play fewer games ROS)
Sochan 📈
Bassey (*once healthy*) 📈📈
Mamu 📈 (deep leagues only)
Castle 📈 (slightly in terms of role security ROS)
February 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If you have the ability to luxury stash Bassey until he's back from the MCL injury, do, but I'm not feeling great about that situation either. Mamu exists. That's about as much as I have to say about him.
February 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Mark Williams 📉 (short term) / 📉📉 (dynasty)

Dalton Knecht 📉

Moussa Diabate/Jusuf Nurkic 📉, but 🟰 if Mark ends up shutdown

Josh Green 📈

Nick Smith, Jr. 📈

KJ Simpson 📈 (negligibly so)
February 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Perhaps even crazier: The gap between Wemby (#3) and AD (#4) (.34) is as big as the gap between Sabonis (#9) and Brook Lopez (#58)!

The inequality gap between elite players and the rest of the pack is greater than it's ever been, and yet Jokic still stands head and shoulders above his peers.
January 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
This year is the first time ever we have 3:

Jokic (1.25)
SGA (1.06)
Wemby (1.02)

This puts SGA's #2 ranked season into perspective (>2014 LeBron and 2019 AD), and yet is WAY behind Jokic.

The gap between Jokic and SGA (.19) is as big as the gap between Maxey/Curry (#11/12) and Jamal Murray (#36).
January 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
However, even crazier than Jokic's dominance in a vacuum are the other dominant seasons it's overshadowing...

We've had 3 seasons where more than 1 player had an aggregate z-score in 9cat >1.00:

2018-19: Harden (1.09), AD (1.05)
2014-15: AD (1.20), Curry (1.00)
2012-13: KD (1.24), LeBron (1.04)
January 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM