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Our projection system identifies similar players throughout NBA history and uses them to develop a probabilistic forecast of what a current NBA player’s future might look like.

Welcome to The Lab, FiveThirtyEight’s basketball podcast. On Monday’s show (May 21, 2018), Neil and Kyle discuss where each conference finals series stands. Did Golden State’s resounding Game 3 win ...

FiveThirtyEight's MESSI* analysis compares how every athlete played in every men’s World Cup from 1966 to 2018 by generating statistical fingerprints of 5,899 World Cup performances. Random player ...

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Here’s where things stand after the divisional round: ð “Ellis” is at the top of our postseason leaderboard with 276.4 points. ð Neil Mehta is in first place on our overall leaderboard with 1,275.9 ...

Big projection there in Georgia for Brian Kemp, though his victory was not unexpected. After crushing a Trump-backed opponent in the primary, he was in great sh… ...