angele delevoyeDec 29, 20218 min readA causal inference approach to fouling when up by three[Note: the results shown here come from preliminary work. I am showing them because they produce sensible results using a promising...
angele delevoyeDec 15, 20213 min readThe Women National Buzzer Beater Association? Watching WNBA games this past season, it felt like we were constantly being gifted with close games, OTs and buzzer beaters. Did the...
angele delevoyeJul 16, 20213 min readShould teams fight for this half-time advantage? A well-covered analysis suggested that being slightly behind at halftime leads to an increase in winning percentage. The explanation is...
angele delevoyeJun 2, 20215 min readCatch and shoot versus pull-ups in the WNBAA general finding in the NBA is that jump shots off the catch (Catch and Shoot) generally yield better results than those of the dribble...
angele delevoyeJun 2, 20213 min readShooting zones evolutions in the WNBA: how much of an outlier was the Wubble?[This post will be updated as more 2021 season data becomes available]. I use the shot zones defined by the WNBA, as shown on a league...
angele delevoyeMay 27, 20212 min readWho owns the zones? Leaders for each shooting zones, 2002-2021. I explore how shooting patterns evolved in the WNBA in a different post. In this post, I look at who the all-time leaders in each zone...
angele delevoyeMay 27, 20211 min readWant fantasy scores for specific games in 2021? Basketball Reference only provide season-long statistics, from which we can derive all-time numbers. What if you want statistics for a...
angele delevoyeMay 24, 20211 min readFind the WNBA all-time advanced stats leaders The shiny app below provides individual summary statistics from boxscore data going back to 1997. I use Basketball Reference data (the...