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

Joined May 2026
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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 helpthehelper.vercel.app
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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
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Some recent Help the Helper additions: official positional designations and filters for official positional designations and # of seasons played helpthehelper.vercel.app
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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
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Very much crossing my fingers that this site does not crash
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2. wRAPM will inherently be noisy. I’ve employed some techniques to try to stabilize it, but the WNBA season is short. I’m still undecided on how I’ll present in-season data, but wRAPM comes with all the usual caveats about impact metrics plus seasons (and games) are shorter
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3. I’m not a data scientist. My qualifications for building this site are that I wanted to, had the time, and know a thing or two about basketball (plus what a ridge regression is). I put a lot of effort into making sure everything is right, but take it with a grain of salt
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