Max Carlin

Product & tech stuff. @Wharton MBA. Past: Director of Ops, @SIS_Hoops.

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

Hi friends, hope you’ve been well. When trying to dive deep into the WNBA, I found a void where I wanted advanced analytics tools to be. I built a site that tries to communicate the previously-unquantified impact in WNBA basketball. This is Help the Helper https://t.co/ASfk0g1mV5

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@TheStalwart Consequences of that automation are obviously TBD, but I'd think leaner teams + more work are more likely than widescale job destruction

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@TheStalwart We'll see this replicated to an extent with proprietary fine tuned models. Consultancies and banks have very large private corpuses of info on how to do parts of the job (ie. slides)...

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@mikegrib8 Yeah, it’s a good point. You learn this naturally over time with the feedback of future higher level performance, though, which is part of that taste development

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

One thing I'd recommend to folks getting into prospect scouting is to watch film where your context is limited--both where you have limited priors and where you have limited access to opinions of others. This helps with developing "taste." I found HS/AAU valuable for this

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

Some recent Help the Helper additions: official positional designations and filters for official positional designations and # of seasons played
https://t.co/9n1icXoXZX

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

I think opponent shot profile is such an important defensive indicator, so I've been trying to develop some rim protection metrics. 2025 Valkyries are giving me some trouble lol

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@ApatheticBrent Yep, it's already multi-year to try to address that https://t.co/q6vqrNIaHh

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@_punkcouple_ Thank you! The base RAPM model is multi-year since single-year is crazy noisy with W possession totals. Definitely considered using a box score prior, but I wanted to avoid it for philosophical reasons and felt good about the smell test results without it...

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

Hi friends, hope you’ve been well. When trying to dive deep into the WNBA, I found a void where I wanted advanced analytics tools to be. I built a site that tries to communicate the previously-unquantified impact in WNBA basketball. This is Help the Helper https://t.co/ASfk0g1mV5

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

Very much crossing my fingers that this site does not crash

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@conconwillia Disappearing for two years was all part of the long game

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@LastSunWarrior Just wait until she doesn't have the rookie prior dragging her down

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@ApatheticBrent Rankings are something I will continue to think about, but I am hesitant because I'm not sure I'd think about the values ordinally. Close values should be thought of as predictions where the confidence intervals have a lot of overlap. Appreciate the thoughts!

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@ApatheticBrent One stat is never the end all be all, and there is plenty of noise in this one, but I think it is a solid descriptive metric of player impact within a given context...

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@klaytheist11 @bjpf_ Of course! Let me know if anything really feels like it’s missing or would make the site better in the course of using it

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@_punkcouple_ If I wanted a more predictive stat, I think I’d have to consider it more strongly

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@_punkcouple_ Thank you! The base RAPM model is multi-year since single-year is crazy noisy with W possession totals. Definitely considered using a box score prior, but I wanted to avoid it for philosophical reasons and felt good about the smell test results without it...

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@zach_idiot We can worry when this account starts tweeting positively about Jaylen Brown

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@sportsdyke Hope it’s useful, and let me know if there’s anything you want added or changed as you use it

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@bjpf_ Except I’m never watching AAU film again

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@TonyREast Hey, Tony :)

[Max Carlin @maxacarlin]

@polarfall Thank you, my friend!