“Underdog All-Stars: Constructing Championship Teams with NBA’s Overlooked Talent”
- Evan Boyd: Resident data scientist and U.S. sports renaissance man, who has a bass guitar in the background of every Teams call but thankfully never plays it.
- Trevor Goldstein: Our fantasy football writer, who happens to also be an NBA guy, and can pick a written fight with the best of them but concedes that argument with the worst of them. He stays up late.
- Donnie Kolakowski: Opta Analyst basketball editor, whose
angerwell-considered disapproval at the following quote from Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas started this hypothetical: “There’s different structures that you can try to get to a championship. There’s 2-3 star players and then a lot of role players or you can build it as 9-10 very good players.” - Theo Robertson: Opta Analystâs latest NBA and college hoops contributor, Cal’s all-time 3-point percentage leader, 2015 NBA ring haver who has worked for humans named Kerr and Popovich, and is too new to Opta Analyst to comfortably poke fun at just yet.
And the Opta Analyst judge: A man-machine combination of our AI basketball wizard Matt Scott and an NBA player model worked on in Manhattan Project-level isolation by one Matt Scott so as to not spill state secrets to any devious hypothetical GMs. None of the GMs got to see the model until after their teams and content were sweated over, second-guessed and submitted.
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