Dean Oliver

@DeanO_Lytics

Book #2 is Basketball Beyond Paper. Book #1 got me famous.

I do sports analytics, mostly hoops. Now at ESPN, teach @SMWW, doing theory of credit division.

Washington, DC nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/97814… Joined July 2012

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Dean Oliver @DeanO_Lytics Nov 4, 2025

It's been almost 40 years since I created Offensive Ratings for teams. I was a college kid. I don't know if I dreamed it would be used so much. My lens was that it helped *me*. Am very happy that the sport embraced the metrics and hope that it helps others as much as it did me.

Dean Oliver @DeanO_Lytics 13h

Dejounte Murray wants out.

See the trades that fans like and dislike for him. Interestingly, this is the one that is positive on both sides thus far. You can add your own proposals and have it clean up the details to make it work by the CBA.

espnanalytics.com/nba-trade-view…

Shams Charania Verified account @ShamsCharania 16h

New Orleans Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray wants a trade from the franchise, and his agent Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul and team officials have started working on a resolution for the one-time All-Star, sources tell ESPN.

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Dean Oliver @DeanO_Lytics 14h

RAPM does something different than Net Pts. RAPM tries to predict, but doesn't do much to explain what happened, though they're related.

Net Points *for this year* has Flagg way up. His predictive value is the same as RAPM and moving up.

Steve Ilardi @dr_ilardi 2d

2025 Lottery Picks: RAPM Impact (2-Yr Model)

1️⃣Flagg +0.8 📈
2️⃣Harper +4.6 👀
3️⃣VJ +1.5
4️⃣Kon +2.7 💪🏼
5️⃣Ace -3.1
6️⃣Johnson -0.9
7️⃣Fears -2.7
8️⃣Demin 0.0
9️⃣CMB +0.8
🔟Maluach -1.0
11 Coward +2.2 💪🏼
12 Essengue -1.3
13 Queen -2.6
14 Bryant -0.2

(Stats per nbarapm @databallr)
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Dean Oliver @DeanO_Lytics 14h

Good to hear

Dave McMenamin Verified account @mcten 15h

JJ Redick said he used the three-day break in the schedule to “audit” the Lakers’ season thus far. He presented a 21-page analytics breakdown to the team, backing up their tenants: “Offensively: organized, unselfish, advantage based - then we went through the stats on that”

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Dean Oliver @DeanO_Lytics 20h

ESPN's BPI went from +2.7 for the Warriors to -1.8 with Curry getting ruled out until December.

Their "Playoff BPI", which captures how well the full-strength team appears to be, remains at +6.2, though that assumes that Porzingis comes back healthy, which now seems unlikely.