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🏀 2024-25 NBA Forecast and Estimated RAPTOR Ratings 📈
Track how I'm forecasting every team’s chance to make — and win — the NBA Finals, all season long.
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🏒 2024-25 NHL Team Elo Power Rankings & Goals Above Replacement Player Ratings 📉
Power ratings and forecasts for every NHL team and player this season.
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⚾ 2025 MLB Elo Power Ratings, Playoff Odds & Wins Above Replacement (WAR) rankings 📈
The following table is a list of MLB teams with their Elo ratings and their predicted wins throughout the 2025 season.
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Caitlin Clark Has the Formula to Get Even Better This WNBA Season
The history of other highly-drafted WNBA guards in Year 2 gives clues about where Clark might improve.
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The Leafs Are Blowing This. (Of Course They Are.)
Once up 2-0 on the defending champs, Toronto's blowout loss Wednesday has pushed them to the brink.
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🏀 2025 WNBA Elo Team Power Rankings and Player Rankings 📈
Power ratings for every WNBA team and player this season.
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⚾ Baseball Bytes: Are the '25 Rockies the Worst Ever?
And is this the excuse to rethink mile-high baseball entirely? Plus, a Holy rotation, and Mr. Ray gets his day.
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Round 2 of the 2025 Playoffs Is Breaking the NBA
The Celtics are flailing, the Cavs are cratering and home teams can’t buy a win. The wildest second round in modern NBA history has turned the playoffs…
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Rafael Devers Should Want To Play First Base
He would instantly be more valuable if he takes the Red Sox up on their request — and he might hit better, too.
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🏁 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Driver Rankings 🚗
Tracking the top drivers in the sport, all season long.
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📝 The Week That Was (May 5-9, 2025)
A roundup of what I wrote, read, watched, etc. over the past week.
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The Celtics Are Having the Most Choke-Tastic Start to a Series in Modern NBA History
Boston has lost more late-game win probability than any team to begin a series in the modern era — and it might end up costing them everything.
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