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Here's a stats breakdown and comparison behind why Nikola Jokic deserves the MVP award and why Lauri Markkanen deserved the MIP award.

https://sweepsportsanalytics.com/2023/04/15/2022-23-nba-awards-why-jokic-should-be-mvp-and-why-markkanen-deserved-the-mip-award/

If you ask me, the Joker deserves to win it – for the third time in a row. It’s not a fun storyline, but I think it’s true. Nikola Jokic has been the most VALUABLE player this season. He ranks 1st in nine categories, 2nd in four, and 3rd in four, i.e. top 3 in 17 categories! What I find to be the most important stat categories are the Player Efficiency Rating (PER), True Shooting Percentage (TS%), and Win Shares. He’s currently the favorite to win the title, with over 50% chance.

On April 23, 2023, Lauri Markkanen was awakened at 2 AM while serving the Finnish military to receive his award. The first Jazz player in history to win it, his all-around improvement was really impressive.

The Loss Angeles Lakers: A Modern Tragedy - An In Depth Analysis Using Python

The Loss Angeles Lakers: A Modern Tragedy - An In Depth Analysis Using Python - Sweep Sports Analytics Sweep Sports Analytics Reading Time: 2 minutes Note by Bill, Sweep Sports Analytics: This is a great interesting analysis that Angel Maldonado asked to...

The moment we’ve all been waiting for is here. The EuroLeague Final Four is set to start in Belgrade. Barcelona, Olympiacos, Anadolu Efes, and Real Madrid will be battling for the prestigious EuroLeague trophy.

A lot has been said and written about the Final Four. What I want to add is an analytics view for Olympiacos’ game against Anadolu Efes.

I dare to say that Olympiacos really shows heart this season. Players such as Kostas Sloukas, Thomas Walkup, and Hassan Martin stepped up and overachieved in the playoff series against Monaco.

On the other side, in the playoffs Anadolu Efes played as champions to overcome Armani Milano 3-1 and reach the Final Four, with Tibor Pleiss playing better than expected. Vasilije Micic fell into negative PIR territory, despite an increase in his average points.

The reigning champions Anadolu Efes is the team with the best offensive rating in the whole EuroLeague season. Olympiacos‘ offense was the 4th best among all EuroLeague teams and is 3rd among the Final Four teams.

Olympiacos has been amazing at both ends of the court. The Greek side was the only team besides Barcelona within the top four teams in the league – 4th in offense and 3rd in defense. Anadolu Efes barely managed to finish the season with an average defensive rating thanks to their strong run in their last games. Which team will show up in the semifinal?

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https://sweepsportsanalytics.com/2022/05/19/2022-euroleague-final-four-olympiacos-vs-anadolu-efes-analytics-preview/

With cost of top tier relievers in baseball sky rocketing (LHP Aroldis Chapman signed a 3 year / $48mil contract with the New York Yankees and RHP Liam Hendriks signed a 3 yr/ $54mil contract with the Chicago White Sox) MLB front offices appear to acknowledge the necessity of quality relievers.

The White Sox were able to dish out so much money to Liam Hendricks knowing they had a steal coming by signing the 558th pick in the 2014 draft LHP Aaron Bummer to a 5 year / $16 million contract.

Aaron Bummer's 121 ERA+ indicates that he was 21% better than the average pitcher. I believe that number is only going to get bigger.

Why is he so hard to hit? The Sinker and The Slider.

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Baseball Analytics: Aaron Bummer to Be One of the Best? - Sweep Sports Analytics Sweep Sports Analytics Reading Time: 6 minutes The White Sox knew they had a steal coming by signing LHP Aaron Bummer to a 5 year / $16 million contrac...

It’s time for another basketball analytics tutorial! This is for beginners and intermediate sports analytics enthusiasts. I will show you how to extract and prepare NBA data from basketball-reference.com and create a graph with a player’s career stats.

https://sweepsportsanalytics.com/2021/12/19/nba-analytics-tutorial-using-r-to-display-player-career-stats/

NBA Analytics Tutorial: Using R to Display Player Career Stats - Sweep Sports Analytics Use RStudio to retrieve, prepare, and visualize NBA player stats with this detailed tutorial. For beginners and intermediate level analysts.