Dave Sheinin
Sports Enterprise Writer at The Washington Post
Family man; WaPo Sports writer; singer/songwriter; good hang; semicolon aficionado. I'm still out here looking for a spark.
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3 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Dave Sheinin
Whatever gravity the sport of hockey had been exerting on the Patrick family for more than a century, holding its members in its orbit the way the sun does the planets — and rewarding their steadfastness with Stanley Cup titles, Hall of Fame berths, Olympic glory and an unmatched legacy as hockey’s royal family — had begun to lose its celestial power in the latter half of the 2000s.
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1 month ago |
washingtonpost.com | Dave Sheinin
Stanford’s Greg Meehan named USA Swimming’s national team director (washingtonpost.com) Stanford’s Greg Meehan named USA Swimming’s national team director By Dave Sheinin 2025041116300000 USA Swimming named former Stanford women's coach Greg Meehan as its new national team director Friday, tabbing one of the country's most successful collegiate coaches to restore Team USA's global supremacy during a critical stretch culminating with the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. Meehan was a...
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1 month ago |
estadao.com.br | Dave Sheinin
No final de uma entrevista coletiva no dia 23 de janeiro em Paris, onde nem mesmo as ambições globais da NBA conseguiram protegê-lo das críticas domésticas sobre o estado da liga enquanto produto, o comissário Adam Silverreconheceu algo que muitos haviam concluído muito tempo atrás: o movimento da análise de dados na NBA tinha empurrado o esporte para um lugar problemático, onde a liga agora pensava em intervir.
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2 months ago |
washingtonpost.com | Dave Sheinin
From its lofty perch at the pinnacle of the North American sports biosphere, the mighty NFL can take comfort in what appears to be a natural immunity to the modern disease that has befallen MLB and the NBA in recent years — an aesthetic deterioration brought about by optimization strategies largely traceable to those leagues’ fully matured analytics movements. BeautyballThe analytics movement helped revolutionize sports.
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2 months ago |
washingtonpost.com | Dave Sheinin
At the end of a Jan. 23 news conference in Paris, where even the NBA’s global ambitions failed to shield him from domestic criticism over the state of the league’s product, Commissioner Adam Silver acknowledged something that many had concluded long ago: The NBA’s analytics movement had pushed the game to a problematic place — one that sits exactly 23 feet 9 inches from the goal, or 22 feet in the corners — where the league must now consider intervening.
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RT @SportsSocietyVU: Dave Sheinin on his "Beautyball" series. "(Analytics) helped revolutionize sports. But now the all-consuming influence…
Last night, the Celtics tied an NBA record with 63 3PAs. In the first quarter, 22 (!) of their 24 FGAs were 3's. Is this the product the NBA wants? Is it what the fans want? We explored this issue and more in our project, Beautyball https://t.co/KzZ8XebJ8A
RT @DannyKnobler: Great idea for a story, and not surprisingly great execution of the idea by @DaveSheinin