We all know Harden as the original blogboi player, a player that analytic enthusiasts claimed would be a superstar because of his efficiency and advanced stats, even in his rookie season. I have to admit I doubted them at the time, but they were right.

There’s also the infamous EG and Jokic situation, a guy fascinated by advanced metrics predicting this role player would be a superstar

My question is: was Harden the OG blogboi player? Or just the most famous case of advanced metrics being right? Any other examples of this before that?

  • orwll@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We all know Harden as the original blogboi player, a player that analytic enthusiasts claimed would be a superstar

    Do we? I don’t remember that level of hype around Harden as a rookie.

    And I don’t remember a big community of people doing serious analytics at that time. It was Hollinger and maybe a handful of others.