Experimenting with a sortable, filterable table that has a bar graph background to show inline magnitudes without being super distracting

The trinity of 3-point shooting in the NBA right now is Cam Spencer (50.8%), AJ Green (48.5%), and Vit Krejci (46.5%) LaMelo, Steph and Klay are each off in their own area

Over the last 10 games, five teams have an offensive rating greater than 120: the Celtics, Nuggets, Knicks, Lakers and Thunder Only five teams have ever finished a season with a >120 offensive rating (per @basketball-reference.com): 23-24 Celics & Pacers, 24-25 Cavs, Celts & Thunder

FIFA once again testing the limits of what they can do and yet keep me somehow still interested in international football It's an amazingly powerful product they have that I'll ignore all the... /waves hands/ and still be interested despite myself

Who's taking more offensive load, and scoring more efficiently this year? - the return of Jerami Grant? - the arrival of Kyshawn George - Jaden McDaniels isn't just D - Jaylen Brown carrying the load with Tatum out

I'm doing advent of code again, this year in gleam, follow @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy if you're interested bsky.app/profile/llim...

That last graph made me wonder who is shooting more threes this year than last, and are they doing it better? - Max Christie's volume and percentage are way up - KAT is struggling shooting in the new Knicks offense - Brolo is letting loose much more often - Sniper Westbrook?

3-point shooting so far this season for the highest-volume guys. - The rise of Sam Merrill! - wild to see a rookie near the efficiency frontier, Kon is for real - my UConn heart loves to see Cam Spencer up there - LaMelo, Shaedon Sharpe and Derrick White competing for chucker of the year so far

Hacking on an interactive table-graph hybrid and trying to make it feel nice. Thinking I might add some more columns next; it feels nice to get a visual sense of the data and kind of bounce it back and forth between your visual and analytical brain

rebounding so far this NBA season - Donovan Clingan building a career as an offensive rebounder - KAT has transformed himself into a defensive rebounding monster with the Knicks - Duren keeping the Pistons' motor running - what isn't Jokić good at - Gary Trent Jr. does not have time for that

when two axes of a graph are of similar unit, the graph should be presented as a square, not as a rectangle, to avoid distorting the reader's interpretation of it Example: if you present a graph with offensive efficiency as one axis and defensive efficiency as the other, it should be a square

With Joel Embiid out most of the time, Maxey is doing an incredible job hard-carrying the sixers

Experimenting with changing the net ratings diamond plot to a rectangular plot, but feeling like the data really is diamond-shaped. It's hard to express in this version of the chart that the Mavericks have about the same D rating as the Rockets and the Nuggets, for example

Last night, Payton Pritchard put up a +9.6 on offense and a -6.2 on defense, so that got me wondering what the biggest single-game differences between O and D points were this year. Here's the top 10 All stats from @deanolytics.bsky.social 's espnanalytics.com

Nikola Jokic's lead in true shooting percentage over the rest of the high-volume shooters in the NBA is pretty silly right now

There is a huge gap between the top three teams in the league and everybody else then there's a big muddle in the middle then each bad team is bad in its own, special way

Wemby is breaking basketball, he is to defense what Steph was to offense

Keeping software alive is annoying, it requires constant maintenance. In related news, the NBA team efficiency diamond is back and probably-completely-functional! llimllib.github.io/nbastats/tea... It's updated automatically every day by fiddly github actions

Had a little bit of time today, so updated my nba_data repository for the new season. It's got team, player, and box statistics for every game since 2010 in parquet format, as well as ESPN analytics data from Dean Oliver: github.com/llimllib/nba... If there's something you wish it had, let me know

@ultiworld.bsky.social get me a couple Red Tide points at least, please!

As somebody who is mostly face-blind, charts like this which uses faces instead of names are really difficult to comprehend (From espnanalytics.com, which I was looking at because I really like what they do. Not trying to throw shade at them in particular, I see this all over the place)

I think the regional specialty of New England that is most underappreciated is breakfast sandwiches Our bagel shops and greasy spoons are some of the best of what we are (Dunkin needs an explainer here: Dunkin is a facsimile of our breakfast food, useful when you're in a rush. bad but useful)

Nursing my wound after somebody decided to jump into my face at pickup basketball this evening

@tailscale.com your `serve` docs are 404ing: tailscale.com/kb/1312/serve

I found out last week that the hamburger icon next to a README on github displays a table of contents generated from the document's headlines and I was amazed at how well they have hidden this feature.

I biked to my favorite lunch spot today to enjoy a burrito before summer ends Meanwhile, federal secret police are active in my town sneaking into school parking areas and kidnapping parents of my son's classmates I don't have a lot of ideas for how to deal with that

In Utero was released 32 years ago today. Certainly in my top 5 most listened albums bsky.app/profile/what...

I have an AI code review script that I've found very valuable, so I cleaned it up a bit for release and wrote about it and how I use it: https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2025/07/An_AI_tool_I_find_useful.html It catches enough errors for me that I rarely submit a change without running the code […]

at Glacier national park for a work retreat. Pretty spectacular scenery. First one is avalanche lake from a beautiful 8-mile run, second one down the Lake Mcdonald valley, third one from a trail run behind our hotel. I forgot the bear spray for that run but thankfully was not eaten by a grizzly

I wrote a little bit about the value of not making libraries, and wondering if we ought to do more to support "toolboxes" of code https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2025/07/A_pretty_decent_retry__and_not_a_library.html

We are in an unusual era in NBA history during which 2-point and 3-point attempts are yielding roughly the same points per shot For decades, 3s were far more efficient than 2s

this tweet is for everyone except Seth Partnow known shot attempts 2024-25 regular season

My upside-down world map from @rsimmon.bsky.social finally came back from the framers and I like how it looks on the wall www.mapcenter.com/store/p/upsi...

It was easier than I expected to set up geocoding locally using OSM data and nominatim. I wrote up the steps I took: notes.billmill.org/gis/geocodin...

You may not like it, but this is what peak civic web page design looks like

I made a map of the 2025 reassessment in Portland, Maine: billmill.org/reassess2025/ It's a reminder for me that there are so many choices to be made in any visualization, and especially when dealing with a civically important topic you need to be as careful and mindful as you can be

Playoff EPM was just released by dunksandthrees: dunksandthrees.com/epm/actual?s... thanks @yourmandevine.bsky.social for the heads up

in-progress charts for a single players' postseason net points Still needs to get grouped by series and show the opponent and result

Net points per game for the Knicks and the Pacers so far this postseason

Net points so far this postseason for the Timberwolves and Thunder, including last night's game

It is extremely fun to do the first 80% of things

Net points in the playoffs so far, according to Dean Oliver's espnanalytics.com Note that this is a sum of net points, so players who played more games had more chances to accumulate points

Net points in the playoffs so far, according to Dean Oliver's espnanalytics.com Note that this is a sum of net points, so players who played more games had more chances to accumulate points

I added all the ESPN analytics NBA data from @deanolytics.bsky.social's espnanalytics.com to my nba_data project and stuck it in a parquet file. It's available here if you want to mess with it: github.com/llimllib/nba... I haven't made any graphics with it yet, but that's coming soon

My relief at seeing this graph is so deep

Playoff scoring efficiency so far. Giannis way out ahead of the pack, but it wasn't enough - a win for @owenphillips.bsky.social 's weak link theory

Gary “Bill Buckner” Trent Jr

I'm watching the Boston Marathon on TV this year and just hearing the crowd is making me emotional

Added @deanolytics.bsky.social 's Net Points metric to my graphs this morning. Here it is next to EPM I find it interesting how much they differ on SGA's defensive value

This is what I'd rather be talking about, the final points vs reb+ast for this season: