Neil Paine
@neil_paine
Stathead/sportswriter/editor. neilpaine.substack.com neil.paine_at_gmail.com
Formerly The Messenger, @FiveThirtyEight, @sports_ref, @ATLHawks, @GeorgiaTech
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With Mike Modano being honored with a statue tonight, I wrote about his legacy as the man who put Sun Belt hockey on the map: neilpaine.substack.com/p/mike-modanos…
We got Neil Paine writing a history of the American economy through stadium name rights sherwood.news/business/a-his…
Throwback NBA chat with Neil Paine! Audio only, but we had a lot of fun. natesilver.net/p/nba-playoffs…
College football FPI is out! Here's Neil Paine with the story: espn.com/college-footba…
For Philadelphia Inquirer Sports , I wrote about what it would take for the Sixers to build enough ✨ star power ✨ to win a title around Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey, either through free agency or potential trades: inquirer.com/sixers/sixers-…
At Philadelphia Inquirer Sports, I wrote about the 1977 Sixers’ 2-0 NBA Finals collapse as a cautionary tale for the 2024 Celtics, if they allow their focus to let up (and if Dallas can make any big strategic adjustments) from Game 3 onward. inquirer.com/sixers/sixers-…
This was a great personal tribute to Willie Mays by my friend (((Harry Enten))) — whose father (a wonderful man & lifelong NY Giants fan, even after they left NY) watched Mays at the Polo Grounds, and even saw him around the neighborhood in his retirement. cnn.com/2024/06/20/spo…
For Philadelphia Inquirer Sports , I wrote about the depth of this year’s draft, and why it might be an OK time to be picking outside the lottery (the Sixers pick 16th): inquirer.com/sixers/sixers-…
At Philadelphia Inquirer Sports , I used my NBA free agent surplus value data since 2011 (neilpaine.substack.com/p/which-nba-te…) to look at the Sixers’ track record in free agency over the years (as they lead the NBA in projected practical cap space): inquirer.com/sixers/sixers-…
NEW POD with the great Neil Paine. A data driven exploration of sports mysteries houseofstrauss.com/p/hos-neil-pai…
For Philadelphia Inquirer Sports, I looked at some of the biggest questions facing the Phillies in the season's second half (including, yes, that uptick in schedule difficulty) inquirer.com/phillies/phill…