Anchorage Man
@sethpartnow.bsky.social
Current: open to opportunities
Author: “The Midrange Theory”
Prev: Director of Basketball Research @
Milwaukee Bucks. Dir. N. American Sports @ StatsBomb. NBA analysis @ The Athletic. NBA DS @ Penn Entertainment.
Author: “The Midrange Theory”
Prev: Director of Basketball Research @
Milwaukee Bucks. Dir. N. American Sports @ StatsBomb. NBA analysis @ The Athletic. NBA DS @ Penn Entertainment.
WAWDH Solutions! Gonna hang out the shingle!
A consulting business called What Are We Doing Here?
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
WAWDH Solutions! Gonna hang out the shingle!
I guess I should add that encumbrances on podcast/writing stuff have been lifted as well. You know where to find me.
I am, as LinkedIn would say, open to new opportunities at present…
do you ever think about giving up this basketball stuff and dedicating yourself full time to ninja warrior analysis? i'll hang up and listen
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I guess I should add that encumbrances on podcast/writing stuff have been lifted as well. You know where to find me.
I am, as LinkedIn would say, open to new opportunities at present…
do you ever think about giving up this basketball stuff and dedicating yourself full time to ninja warrior analysis? i'll hang up and listen
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I am, as LinkedIn would say, open to new opportunities at present…
It’s like watching someone biff on the final obstacle of Ninja Warrior
I am a medium-name sportswriter at best, but allow me to add mine:
1. Pickles are disgusting
2. Pineapples on pizza are delicious
3. Coffee tastes like charcoal dipped in bathwater
1. Pickles are disgusting
2. Pineapples on pizza are delicious
3. Coffee tastes like charcoal dipped in bathwater
We need to do everything we can to encourage posts like this on bluesky. Terrible food opinions from big name sportswriters are genuinely the lifeblood of any social media app
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It’s like watching someone biff on the final obstacle of Ninja Warrior
When you’ll definitely get great ROI on your investment
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
When you’ll definitely get great ROI on your investment
In the past I’ve been tempted to argue that corporate HR people often get a bad rap, but this last week or so has strongly disabused me of that notion.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
In the past I’ve been tempted to argue that corporate HR people often get a bad rap, but this last week or so has strongly disabused me of that notion.
Chotiner and Menswear Guy would be an “I wish a motherfucker would” Tourney final for the ages.
The Chotiner
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Chotiner and Menswear Guy would be an “I wish a motherfucker would” Tourney final for the ages.
Wut
Ron Johnson: "We've basically driven free market competition out of healthcare. The way you return it? Consumerism."
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Wut
One of the saddest things I’ve learned over the years is that nothing is seen as worse by “the man” than being right too early.
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
One of the saddest things I’ve learned over the years is that nothing is seen as worse by “the man” than being right too early.
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For the next while I'm gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood.
"The United States isn’t a nation like other nations, and it never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state, and there was no such distinctive ethnicity even in 1776, when the U.S. was created."--Gordon Wood www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
Opinion | Why America Is a ‘Creedal Nation’
The distinguished historian says the U.S. isn’t like other nations and never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state.
www.wsj.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
For the next while I'm gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood.
Oof
Denver Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon has sustained a Grade 2 right hamstring strain and will be re-evaluated in 4-to-6 weeks, sources tell ESPN.
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Oof
I mean if you want to purple up Texas some more, this is great advice, Dave.
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I mean if you want to purple up Texas some more, this is great advice, Dave.
Leadership writing checks the underlying tech and/or labor can’t cover, and then guess who gets blamed for the inevitable failure?
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Leadership writing checks the underlying tech and/or labor can’t cover, and then guess who gets blamed for the inevitable failure?
I tend to prefer flavors of defensive RAPM such as those from NBARAPM.com or xRAPM.com for overall measures of defensive impact. EPM from @taylorsnarr.bsky.social is also good, but the box score prior can cause some distortion IMO.
But individual defense is *HARD* to measure.
But individual defense is *HARD* to measure.
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I tend to prefer flavors of defensive RAPM such as those from NBARAPM.com or xRAPM.com for overall measures of defensive impact. EPM from @taylorsnarr.bsky.social is also good, but the box score prior can cause some distortion IMO.
But individual defense is *HARD* to measure.
But individual defense is *HARD* to measure.
Counterpoint: the show had zero idea what it was trying to say after they got past Martin’s published work beyond “ooh shiny”
i feel like if you understand what the ending of the show was trying to say there's no point in having any content set after it.
no new age of the world, westeros is trapped in doomed to be trapped in hellish medieval stasis for eternity. the wheel spins on forever
no new age of the world, westeros is trapped in doomed to be trapped in hellish medieval stasis for eternity. the wheel spins on forever
George R.R. Martin teases the 'Game of Thrones' universe will finally get to the world after the OG show's divisive finale.
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Counterpoint: the show had zero idea what it was trying to say after they got past Martin’s published work beyond “ooh shiny”
These particular numbers don’t because defense is hard to measure via the box score and those are two very box score forward metrics. But even better calibrated metrics suggest Jokic is much closer to average than terrible defensively.
@sethpartnow.bsky.social Jokic is always at the top of DWS and DBPM. But it's dismissed because (a) his backups stink and (b) the 'eye test' says Jokic is an average defender, at best. Don't those metrics account for backup quality? And, it's year 5 of this. The numbers tell us something, right?
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
These particular numbers don’t because defense is hard to measure via the box score and those are two very box score forward metrics. But even better calibrated metrics suggest Jokic is much closer to average than terrible defensively.
A word I had not heard since college appears to have reentered the discourse. Relatedly, I had a college teammate with the last name of Felchle.
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A word I had not heard since college appears to have reentered the discourse. Relatedly, I had a college teammate with the last name of Felchle.
These fucking fuckers.
Under the radar, Google has added features that allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models.
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
These fucking fuckers.
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Living through history is not fun
Do you all feel absolutely crazy as I do with everything going on? Please say yes
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Living through history is not fun
Goodhart’s Law in action.
So many teams are playing fast now, speeding upcourt to get open shots or exploit crossmatch mismatches. But too often, some of the teams, the Magic especially, take contested shots quickly, which defeats the purpose of playing fast. Orlando loses a lot of possessions that way.
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Goodhart’s Law in action.
There might never be GOOD times to do layoffs, but the week before Thanksgiving is certainly a bad one.
Well shit.
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
There might never be GOOD times to do layoffs, but the week before Thanksgiving is certainly a bad one.
She should call city hall to complain. The number is (II-I-II) V-nulla-IV IV-I-I-V
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
She should call city hall to complain. The number is (II-I-II) V-nulla-IV IV-I-I-V
The whole purpose of its output is literally mediocrity.
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The whole purpose of its output is literally mediocrity.