Ben Taylor
Basketball analyst; runs Thinking Basketball and wrote the book of the same name.
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- Ben Taylor is a basketball analyst who describes himself as a behavioural scientist who loves basketball.
- He has run his basketball site, formerly called Backpicks and now Thinking Basketball, from 2011.
- He has built historical NBA metrics and hand-tracked hundreds of games.
- He wrote the book Thinking Basketball and makes the Thinking Basketball YouTube channel and podcast.
Key facts
- Site
- thinkingbasketball.net (formerly Backpicks), from 20111
- Metrics
- Historical player and team metrics, e.g. Box Creation, Passer Rating, Offensive Load, WOWYR1
- Book
- Thinking Basketball2
- Video
- Thinking Basketball on YouTube, about NBA strategy and history1
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