Intros

[Evan Zamir]

Hey everyone. I'm Evan. I created nbawowy.com and thecity2.com. I work as a data scientist and product manager for a mobile app in San Francisco.

I am a Warriors fan since Run TMC.

[rickstil]

 Love NBA from a Daily Fantasy standpoint. Lost track for a long time until last season. Thanks for the invitation. I followed instructions, Evan. Rick

[steve]

Hey guys, my name is Steve. I am a retail consultant that focuses mostly on getting Asian manufactures ready to enter the US market. I am based out of the Dallas/Fort Worth area and have been a battered Warriors fan since about '98.

[nbo2]

Hey everyone, my name is Nik and I founded the Georgetown Sports Analysis, Business and Research Group. Looking to work in basketball analytics in the future.

[nicholasjguastella]

Hey guys, I am Nick. I work tech support at a school in Lansing Michigan.  Over the past couple of years I have tried to learn about basketball analytics because I find it really interesting.  I am a big Piston fan and unfortunately the more I have paid attention to advanced stats the more I have realized just how masterful Josh Smith shot charts are.  I look forward to discussing basketball with you all.

[shawn_woods15]

My name is Shawn Woods, and I am a math teacher in Wichita, Kansas. I am a big NBA fan, and for proximity reasons am a fan of the Oklahoma City Thunder. 

[Evan Zamir]

I've been to Wichita once in my life. My best friend used to live there and is now practicing medicine in Russell. You must be a Shockers fan?

[Michael Pellissier]

Hey everyone, I'm Michael Pellissier. I am in the MBA Program at Millsaps College in Jackson, MS. I have been a Hornets/Pelicans fan since 2009 and I currently write for ESPN THN's Bourbon Street Shots. I am studying to be an actuary.

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[shawn_woods15]

No actually. I spent the last 3 years in Lawrence while my wife finished law school, so I'm a KU fan even though college basketball has become almost impossible to watch for me recently. We just moved to Wichita within the past year, and the amount of grief I receive about the Shockers being a better team is almost unbearable.

[wcrimi]

I'm Wayne Crimi. I'm an avid basketball fan that got interested in advanced stats over the last few years reading Evan's work and the work of several other stats researchers. 

[shawn_woods15]

Sorry about your Pellies. If we were face-to-face I would give buy you a beer to drown your sorrows.

[Seth Partnow]

Hey all,

I'm Seth Partnow, I'm from Anchorage, Alaska. I'm mostly a fan of the NBA but if you made me pick a team it would be the Celtics.  I blog about the NBA many different places (my own site, Hickory High, BBallBreakdown, Clipperblog) and it takes up way too much of my time.

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[mda...@masonlive.gmu.edu]

Hey all,

 

I'm matt d'anna - I'm a Pattern Analyst during the day, grad student and blogger (at morningpickup.com for now, more soon) at night. The *cough, cough* Knicks *cough, cough* have always been my favorite team, why give up now.

 

 

matt

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i'm bryan.  i'm studying data science at columbia.  originally from boston, favorite team = celtics. 

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[Kevin O'Connor]

Hey everyone,

I'm Kevin O'Connor, I write for SB Nation's CelticsBlog.com. I'm 23, and try to base my studies on a mix of advanced analytics and film analysis. I love writing for SB Nation but I'm in need of a paying job, badly. I just graduated college as a double major in communications and psychology, and would like to either be a sportswriter, rock star, or social psychologist. Preferably one of the first two, haha.

Looking forward to getting to know you all.

Thanks for the invite, Evan.

[swill91]

Hello all, my name is Will Skelton and I'm currently a senior at Virginia Tech. Started out a Hornets fan, now a Pelicans fan. Excited to discuss some hoops with everybody!

[nathan.sitaraman]

Hey guys, I'm a physics major at Yale and a fan of the Cavaliers. I've gotten interested in NBA analytics in the last few years, especially after finding nbawowy and James Brocato's excellent site shutupandjam.net. Like many, I am in the process of building a draft rater, with a focus on giving projections with accurate error values (so in plus/minus terms, I want projections that look like Andrew Wiggins: 2.5 +/- 1.2).

On Monday, March 3, 2014 7:04:53 PM UTC-5, Evan Zamir wrote:

[wchixon1]

My name is Cole Hixon, I'm 25 years old and an OKC Thunder fan. I was born and raised in OKC, so I've been on the bandwagon since before they were 3-29.  

On Monday, March 3, 2014 6:04:53 PM UTC-6, Evan Zamir wrote:

[sirpsycho85]

Hey, I'm Kenny. I'm a product manager in the bay area, and I'm new to both of those things.

I'm a huge NBA fan, somewhat team agnostic but with a special place for my formerly local Knicks and Nets, as well as the Rockets (due to experiencing Linsanty from its epicenter)... that said, the Rockets can be unwatchably boring.

I enjoy stats and good bball analysis and conversation in general. I can't recommend TrueHoop TV Live highly enough for all of this. Looking forward to this forum!

[judwinton]

Hi Everyone, 

I am Jud Winton.  Huge NBA Fan.  Clippers are my favorite team.  I am finishing my MBA at UCLA focusing on analytics and hope to learn more about the game through the forum.

[zhastie22]

Hello everyone!

My name is Zack Hastie.  I live in Tallahassee FL and manage a liquor store here.  I am a huge sports fan and have really taken interest to basketball the past few years and started playing fantasy basketball this year. Looking forward to learning a bunch from you guys! If I had to pick a favorite team it would be OKC because I spent a good part of my childhood visiting family that lives there and they really embrace thier team as fans!

[bdowsett.nyfwc]

What's up folks, my name is Ben Dowsett and I'm a strategical content writer for TrueHoop affiliate Salt City Hoops covering the Jazz.  I also just recently launched a project on Beacon Reader, a paid subscription site, on advanced draft analytics in collaboration with respected statistician Layne Vashro.  I love the Jazz, but have also been singularly obsessed with LeBron James since 2003 - luckily, my passions rarely collide these days.  Excited to bring what I can to what should be a fun group.

[davismattek]

Hey, everyone. I'm Davis Mattek (@davismattek) and I'm a pretty religious OKC Thunder fan and NBA Daily Fantasy Sports player. I will admit my primary usage of nbawowy is to increase my financial gains and I hope to be able to learn from all of you and hopefully enrich the conversation.

[spp302]

Hello, everyone. Thanks again to Evan for getting the thread up—I'm Sagar: I'm a student at NYU who writes basketball for a small blog run by alumni. My primary use for the site is to expand my own pieces on stuff because I don't have enough to spend on Synergy or the time to load stuff on NBA.com. The more I write, the more agnostic a fan I become: I grew up loving Kobe and MJ more than anything else, though, by far.

On Monday, March 3, 2014 7:04:53 PM UTC-5, Evan Zamir wrote:

[dtjmcauliffe]

Hi Everyone

I'm Daniel McAuliffe, a Spurs fan from New Zealand since I had an internet connection good enough to follow them(~2002). It's tough to support them as they are so poorly managed.

I work for a government agency, occasionally working on stats stuff, though by conceptual ability with stats is far better than my practical ability(I am a shitty programmer). 

[knackstedt.erick]

Hello Everyone. I'm Erick Knackstedt. I work in the leisure travel industry as a destination development manager, selling North American product to Latin American and Spanish clients. I have a masters in Mental Health which really only applies at the margins of my professional life since the career change! I also serve as a forum moderator for RealGM, Orlando Magic forum. Been an Orlando Magic fan since I moved to the city in 1989 at the age of 10. I enjoy the analytical approach to basketball and read and learn from great sources where ever I can find them. Glad to be a part of this community. 

[thomas.pestak]

Hi everyone - I'm Tom Pestak.  I write for Cavs:TheBlog and am editor of gotBuckets.com.  My day job is an electrical engineer working in navigation but my night job (and what I prefer) is writing / talking about the NBA.  I'm a Cleveland Cavaliers fan and I've been poring over advanced stats since 2005 in an attempt to "deal with" Kobe fans.  :) 

I engage in a decent amount of math and data crunching (from navigation sensors) at my job but I'm an engineer so I use Matlab and Numpy and am terrified of R.  I've done my own RAPM but I'm trying to get familiar with the industry standard terms/techniques that everyone in the NBA analytics community uses.  I have a monster 32GB workstation so if anyone needs a really large matrix inverted - I'm here to help!

Nice to meet everyone!

(I see you Nathan from Yale)

[G23]

Hi, raptors fan here. Have been using nbawowy for awhile now. Glad there's is a board now.

[avadhanib]

Hey guys, I'm Avi. I'm from New Jersey in the greater NYC area and work in finance. I'm getting familiar with nbawowy and love the wide variety of stats available there.

I don't really have a favorite team but I appreciate good basketball. I've always been a fan of the Blazers from the Sheed, Wallace and Pippen days (Sabonis, Stoudamire, etc...) to the Roy and Oden days and now to the Lillard and Aldrige era. Also a huge fan of Curry and the Warriors.

[eng.nmartinez]

Hi guys,

Happy to be here. I'm Nelson, a Civil Engineer and also have a masters in Advance Mathematics. Currently working for Pratt & Whitney in CT as a Structural Engineer. Originally from Puerto Rico. 

Thanks for the invitation.

Nelson

[awsuchman]

Hey everyone, my name is Alex Suchman. I'm currently studying math and economics at the University of Texas. I grew up in Houston and am a Rockets fan in spite of their frequent unwatchability. I'm excited to be a part of this group.

[gabrielkatz5]

Hey all I'm Gabe and I'm a 15 year old freshman in high school. I love watching the NBA and am a Celtics fan. I have gotten interested in analytics over the last 1-2 years and find them really interesting. 

[Hoops Nerd]

Hey Evan, thanks, I'm in!

I'm Dan Dickey, many of you may kinda know of me from the APBRmetrics board (Statman) or Twitter (Hoops_Nerd).  I'm a detention officer in Arlington, Texas for about 1 more month (18 years of state & city "justice" work is enough).  I'll be attempting to land some kind of basketball analytics type gig sometime after "retiring" from that job.  We'll see, we'll give it a go, I've never come anywhere close to devoting full time to basketball analytics. 

My site & Twitter are very much works in progress.  My site probably has more college player analytics than found anywhere else (gotta scroll back through some of the March Madness stuff) - and this especially will be true when I actually post the last 18 seasons of D1 college player ratings over the next month or so.  I'll have the last 35 NBA regular seasons of player ratings posted after this morning - gonna upload seasons 1980-1999 starting in a few minutes (will probably take like 2 hours - a lot of formatting).  Seasons 2000-current are up for now, season by season.

Anyway, I don't have many "go to" boards, I think this one will work great - since I love the work Evan does & would like to support the dude.  I'll post updates and such here & probably really get involved in any NBA draft debate stuff - especially when I get my draft model completed in June.  I have an NBA career curve model I might actually put the finishing touches on within a week (I'll rank ALL current NBA guys for future NBA seasons, just for fun) - I'll post results here & twitter when done.  Hopefully the college player NBA projections will get kinda seamlessly added in in June.  Good times.

PLEASE, if anyone has any ideas on what you'd like to see on my site - or any other twitter & boards that are must follows - let me know.  If anyone likes any of my work - repost it or utilize it anywhere you'd like, and let me know on twitter so I can thank you & retweet.

Dan Dickey

@Hoops_Nerd

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[Hoops Nerd]

Hey Nathan, am I following you on twitter?  I'm trying to keep other draft model peeps on my radar, so we can compare results when it's all said & done, see where the consensus lie (both good & bad).  I think I'm following most the known "public" ones (ones that haven't already been hired by a team).

[Nathan S]

I actually don't have a twitter...but I plan to be as public as possible about my results and methods when I do really get into making my draft rater (should be starting in earnest next week, after finals end). There are some statistical outliers in this draft (most notably McDermott, Anderson, and McDaniels), and I'm very interested to see how they fare in different models.

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[kborer3]

Hi All,

My name's Kai Borer, I'm a 22 year old recently graduated Economics and Political science major for UC Santa Barbara, now currently working for Merrill Lynch in Montecito (although I would love to get into the basketball/analytics community if possible). I've been a Warriors fan since the early 2000's but have really gotten into the league in general over the last 3 or 4 years, following the whole league rather than just Golden State. I always enjoy working with numbers/data and basketball analytics have really intrigued me over the last couple years, so I'm looking forward to joining the discussion!

[tomfcoffey]

Hello all,

I'm Tom, a Boston-born Celtics fan with some love for the Warriors, Bulls, and Spurs too. I am some parts financial consultant, programmer, & amateur statistician. I still try to play ball at least once a week

[cjensen049]

What's up guys, I'm Christian. Currently living in Boston which makes me a celtics fan. Graduated from San Diego State's Sports MBA program last summer and am currently working as a financial analyst. I run a pretty intensive NBA salary cap fantasy league and have a few ideas for new stats that I want to share.

[Zachary Bennett]

I suppose I'll introduce myself, too, although I've been lurking around here for the previous few weeks. 

My name Zachary Bennett. I live in Minnesota. Home is where I lay my head, and for the previous seven-or-so years that's been here, but I have childhood memories, and family, that remain in Phoenix, Arizona, where I was born. 

I am an insane Wolves optimist/apologist and a casual Suns fan. I write at a number of different Wolves blogs and also at Hickory-High. @ZacharyBD is my twitter handle. 

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What's up guys, I'm Christian. Currently living in Boston which makes me a celtics fan. Graduated from San Diego State's Sports MBA program last summer and am currently working as a financial analyst. I run a pretty intensive NBA salary cap fantasy league and have a few ideas for new stats that I want to share.

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[parmar.d]

Hey everyone, my name is Divya Parmar. I'm graduating from UC Irvine in a week and will be starting work at an IT consulting firm in LA in August. Down the line, my goal is to be a data scientist, ideally with an application to the world of sports.  That's what prompted me to start the Sports Analysis Collective at UCI (http://ucisportsanalysiscollective.wordpress.com/). I look forward to the dialogue here and the opportunity to learn from all of you.

[kieffer.mark]

Hi everybody,

My name is Mark. I work as a math teacher and live in Denver, Colorado. I grew up in Minnesota. I keep tabs on T-Wolves and Nuggets but don't consider myself a fan of any particular team. I am looking for an opportunity to write on a site or to work for an NBA team. The best way to describe my skillset as I am the bridge between the stat geeks and the coaches. I know the game from a coaching perspective, but have an analytical background that understands the stat geek perspective.

I look forward to reading your ideas and sharing some ideas as well. 

[shaunvir]

Hey everyone,

I'm Shaun--been betting the NBA full-time for the past couple years using some algorithms I coded/developed myself. Trying to get more engaged in the broader analytics community as I look to transition towards a front-office gig (the life-dream is to play a part in putting together a championship winning team). Excited to read some interesting insights in addition to sharing some of my own.

Toronto Raptors fan through and through.

Looking forward to the discussion!

[ElGee]

Hey everyone -- I'm a behavioral scientist by trade. I design experiences and actionable techniques both in technology and with my own one-on-one consulting services to, in short, guide people to accomplish their goals more effectively. 

My love of basketball took me into journalism, where I covered UCLA sports and the Lakers for a year. After that, I started a blog called Backpicks, which was ultimately overrun by things in life that paid more. 

[jay.greene]

Hello everyone, I'm Jay. Diehard NBA fan and a MFFL (Mavs Fan For Life). I remember the 3Js victories better than I do Cowboys wins during that era.

[lingm949]

Hey Everyone,
My name's Max. I'm going into my 5th and final year at the U of Southern California studying Public Policy. I hope to be rehired in a Community Relations Position with the LA Clippers this coming fall, and depending on how taxing my school schedule is, I try my best to contribute at bballbreakdown.com (with the help of some of nbawowy's great stuff). I look forward to some next level discussions here!
Nice to meet you all

[jordan.d.fox]

Hey guys, my name's Jordan Fox, and I'm an engineer in the oil & gas industry working 28/28 over in West Africa, based in the US in Houston. Analytics are really just a hobby for me now, but I'd like to increase my intake/output of them so that I can watch basketball in a more intelligent way.

 

I'm a LeBron fan above all other teams, but I'll support the local Rockets.

[nick.restifo]

Hey guys,

My name is Nick Restifo. I currently manage analytics for a few college basketball teams, take graduate level classes at Central Connecticut State in Data Mining. In the past I've worked for ESPN and Springfield Armor as well. Really excited to be part of the discussion here, and already recognize several familiar faces. Can't wait for the season to start.

[galindragiev]

Hey guys, my name is Galin (@galindragiev) and I write for www.numberFire.com.  I'm an Engineer from the University of Florida but am currently working in Austin, TX.

New to the blog so hoping to get some good discussions going this year.

Cheers,

- Galin

[brandon.diperno]

Hey guys I'm Brandon (@brandon_diperno). I've been a Miami Heat fan all my life, I write for SB Nation's http://www.hothothoops.com and my own website http://www.2mangame.com. Looking forwards to discussing basketball with you guys. 

[Jerry Vinokurov]

I guess since I replied to another thread I might as well introduce myself. My name is Jerry Vinokurov and I'm a researcher in psychology and AI at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Before that, I got a Ph.D. in physics. Basketball analysis is a hobby for me; I follow the Suns, Mavericks, and Spurs most closely, but will watch anything good.

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Hey guys I'm Brandon (@brandon_diperno). I've been a Miami Heat fan all my life, I write for SB Nation's http://www.hothothoops.com and my own website http://www.2mangame.com. Looking forwards to discussing basketball with you guys. 

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[mileswray]

Hey everybody, my name's Miles, and I write pretty often about sports from up here in groovy Seattle. I'd like to know more about basketball from an analytics perspective to round out my knowledge or whatnot. I will probably only ask questions if I say anything, but I look forward to reading and learning from y'all.

Fell in love with basketball as a kid wanting the Stockon/Malone Jazz to take down the big bad Bulls.

[derektcarty]

Hey everyone!  My name is Derek Carty.  I've been in the fantasy MLB industry for a long time and launched my MLB DFS projection system this year at Fantasy Insiders.  I'm just starting to get into NBA but am hooked already, and am in the process of beginning to develop a DFS NBA projection system.

[tom2517]

Hello guys, I am Tom and I currently live in Taiwan. I grew up in the bay area so I am a big Warriors fan, I play fantasy basketball with some friends and that's how I came to be interested in the analytical side of basketball. 

[terzic01]

Hey everyone, name is Chris Terzic. I write at Bulls101.com and ref basketball (which in my area is surprisingly decent money. It's like bartending except the adults likely aren't drunk, and to my knowledge, is also not a Ponzi Scheme). I recognize some of the names on here, and am happy to of found this place. Seems like a good group of people interested in sharing and learning, so hopefully I'm able to do my part. 

[Avi Barzilai]

Hi everyone,

My name's Avi and I'm an aspiring statistician at Northwestern University. I've survived being a Nets fan since the Stephon Marbury days and have no plan on stopping the pain now.

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[alexdundas]

Hey Everyone, I'm Alex.  I live in Vancouver, Canada and I'm a Raptors fan.  I just finished an accounting program at UBC.  I'm a fantasy owner in a 20 team league and I'm looking forward to some intelligent discussion about basketball.

Cheers,
Alex

[j_oxford]

Hey everyone, Im Patrick and obviously a huge NBA fan. just graduated with my BBA in Sports Management, and I currently have an internship with a minor league basketball team where I do marketing, production, and coaching. My real passion is analytics in basketball, and I'll often take hours or days entering data into spreadsheets (thank goodness Bb-ref has an export function) to run linear regressions. im currently working on a regression using on-off data. im tired of bottom-up statistics forming the basis of my models, and would like to use the top-down data that Evan supplies to create a better regression than I've previously been able to. 

[hoopsmalone]

My name is Mike and I work in Commercial Real Estate.  I have always liked and followed the NBA and college and have a love of statistics and diving deeper into how they translate into strategy for games.  This seems like a great forum to learn from others.

[@hmbsBASKETBALL]

Hi everyone;

Appreciate being apart of the group.  I'm Ricardo based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Been actively involved in fantasy basketball since 2000, primarily in Yahoo! Sports.  If you have better suggestions, I'm open.

I commission an extremely competitive league, luckily I was able to attract NBA TV personalities.

Look forward to ongoing fantasy basketball communications.  Thank you.

Ricardo. 

[pb.greenwood]

Hello, all.

I'm a sport management professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo studying daily fantasy sports as a side project. It's a natural fit for me, as I'm a 23-year veteran of fantasy sports. My main games have been baseball and football, but this year, in order to continue the study, I've really gotten into the NBA. Although this research study is qualitative (participant inquiry), I'm fascinated and interested by the analytics side.

After over 6 months of tracking my daily play and taking field notes, I have a strong conviction that DFS is skill-based and should remain legal. I believe analytics are a critical component to the continued legality of DFS, so any and everything I can learn to further my own advantage and further explore the skill involved with gameplay are my primary motivators for joining this forum. I look forward to learning from you all.

[Aaron Blackshear]

Hi guys,

I'm Aaron, I'm a health actuary by day, NBA junkie at night. Lifelong Bulls and Bucks fan from Wisconsin, now living in Colorado and still sad the Nuggets fired George Karl so I don't get to watch that really fun offense anymore. I've become much more team agnostic in recent years, just love NBA basketball and have favorite players more than team loyalty. 

I dabble with basketball analytics as much as my limited free time allows, and I've been working on some things with the SportVU data recently. Will start blogging soon at strictlyforbuckets.com. 

[Mark Engleson]

Hi everyone,

I'm a graduate student in social work and public at the University of South Florida with a lifelong hoops addiction that I can trace at least as far back to being in Richfield Colosseum when Michael Jordan crushed my beloved Cavs with "The Shot" in '89.  Analytics are strictly a side interested for me, one of a few things I blog about.

Mark,

onthemarkengleson.com

[Mara Averick]

Hey, I'm Mara. I'm a non-profit data nerd by day, and a long-time basketball and fantasy basketball (the 82-game kind) fan. Basically, it's basketball's fault that I'm a data scientist (for which I am most definitely grateful), since R, Python and the like come in so handing for optimizing fantasy lineups. 

I'm from Boston, so I, of course, root for the Celtics, but am never opposed to a shot block or two coming from the other team (as long as it's at the hands of someone on my fantasy roster). 

Like most girls, I love a good bit of spatial tracking, toying with predictive models, and devising player metrics in my spare time. 

[Keith Parish]

Hey guys, my name is Keith, I've been creeping on here for over a year. I have a podcast that is pretty silly called Fastbreak Breakfast, but we like to be accurate (when necessary), and appreciate the hard work of people in the nbawowy and analytics community to broaden our understanding of the nba.

But I'm also a Grizzlies fan so I understand net rating is trash. 

Cheers,

Keith

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[Evan Zamir]

Hey Keith. Welcome. Sorry about Monday night.

-Warriors fan

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[Michael Capsa]

Hello Everyone!

I'm Michael, NBA fantantic, DFS grinder, NBA freethinker, and analytic disciple. I've loved Bulls basketball since day one like my folks before me. I wanted join a group of like minded enthusiast.

[BigMike]

Hello All,

Micheal Thomas, sales manager, and I just love DFS!  Ahem, Kansas CIty Chiefs, Alabama Football, and Lakers fan!

[Kevin Ferrigan]

Hi everyone,

My name is Kevin Ferrigan. I'm interning with the Mavs and before that I wrote at a bunch of basketball sites including Nylon Calculus and BBALLBREAKDOWN.

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[Evan Zamir]

Kevin, curious. Don’t the Mavs put you on lockdown? I’m surprised you are even allowed to say anything in a “public” forum.

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[Jonathan Deschaine]

Hey everyone, I'm Jon Deschaine. I'm currently a junior at the University of Maine studying Math and Financial Economics. I'm a big Yankees fan despite growing up in Maine (U.S.'s most northeastern state) and also root for the Atlanta Hawks and Chicago Bears. I play daily fantasy sports regularly and use nbawowy's data for my models.

[Yifei Hu]

Hey guys, my name is Yifei Hu, and I also go by the name Patrick. I'm a college undergraduate at Rice University studying statistics and possibly computer science. I'm passionate about basketball analytics, and am working as a student manager for the Rice men's basketball team in the statistics department. I'm also a long-time Celtics fan. 

在 2014年3月3日星期一 UTC-6下午6:04:53，Evan Zamir写道：

[Deep_Post_PDX]

Hi everyone, my name is Rob. I'm new to DFS. Started Sept 2015 & is transitioning from NFL to NBA. I was just laid off 2 days ago because of seasonal slowdown. I plan on using some of my time in learning how to become a better GPP player. I've done well in 50/50's about 60% & should be rostering more entries there, but call me stubborn. My failures in GPP's only fuels my desire to be better in that arena. I've invested in 4 premium sites hoping it'll help me become better, & I have. In Fanduel NFL. I'm rostering 6-7 solid plays, but it's the 2-3 that drives me nuts. I can't figure out how those plays were even decided on. I've tried looking into those plays for signs that said roster him. I found none, or didn't see any. Statistically nothing stood out. I began to think that somehow the winners are cheating, but I know they're not. Falling short with 2-3 plays bringing in single digits week after week drives me insane, especially when I see plays on winning LU's with players that came out of the "Twilight Zone". Yes I am determined & persistent at getting better. Someday I will. I hope that it's before I "Toe up" LOL!  I'm actually having fun doing this. It's just that I never thought I'd have this much fun losing at something. 

[josheberley]

Hey everyone, I've been getting the emails for a long time but today is my first time posting.

Dallas Mavericks fan, government communications officer by day, NBA junky by night.

[Corey Benjamin]

Hey everyone,

My name's Corey. Starting in August 2016, I'll be a 1st-year medical student at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. I've recently starting blogging about NBA injuries and sports medicine at thehoopandtheharm.com but have been following analytics-based blogs like NBA Wowy for some time. Obviously, a huge fan of the NBA. Looking forward to learning and understanding more about the greatest game on earth! Go Mavs.

[Rory Masterson]

Hey everybody, I'd heard of NBAwowy before but hadn't really visited until I heard someone - I think Tom Haberstroh? - referred to it on the Zach Lowe podcast. Love it thus far. I do macroeconomic analysis by day and edit www.tuesdayswithhorry.com by night. Have written elsewhere occasionally too. Eternally recovering Knicks fan, but to paraphrase Eduardo Galeano, when good basketball happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.

[GrooveLikeButta]

Hey everyone, I'm Nate and I write for Golden State of Mind under the name "Basketball Jonez". I also work as a tattoo artist in Colorado. I've been a big fan of Evan's work (and a few of the other names I see on the list here) for a long time. This forum seems like such a great resource; I'm looking forward to learning everything I can. 

[Reed Darcey]

Hey everyone,

My name is Reed, and I love the NBA. I am a young aspiring basketball writer always looking for resources to broaden my knowledge and experience. I first found this site while reading one of Tom Haberstroh's articles. 

I realize the group has not been active in quite some time, but I am hoping to help revive it so I can communicate with some fellow educated basketball minds heading into July 1 during one of the most important, exciting offseasons in league history.

I've already written some stuff, some of which I am proud of, some not as much. My latest piece: https://blog.fantasylifeapp.com/nba-free-agency-preview-part-1-fc124c393ff5 (Desperate for some feedback, negative or positive). 

Looking forward to chatting with some of you.

  

[James holas]

sup folks! James Holas of bballbreakdown.com here. Been an NBA diehard since MJ & his Bulls first chip. This offseason already is more exciting than the playoffs. Wrote a bit about the big CP3 trade.

https://bballbreakdown.com/2017/06/28/rockets-chris-paul/

If you guys are on Twitter, follow and chat there, @snottiedrippen!

On Apr 25, 2016 07:23, "Corey Benjamin" <coreybe...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey everyone,

My name's Corey. Starting in August 2016, I'll be a 1st-year medical student at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. I've recently starting blogging about NBA injuries and sports medicine at thehoopandtheharm.com but have been following analytics-based blogs like NBA Wowy for some time. Obviously, a huge fan of the NBA. Looking forward to learning and understanding more about the greatest game on earth! Go Mavs.

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[Evan Zamir]

Would love to see more chatter here! It's been too quiet.