Lev Akabas
Data Reporter at Sportico
#SportsBiz and NBA 🏀 data viz 📊. Data Reporter at @Sportico, previously @nytimes and @SLAMonline, all opinions are my own
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1 week ago |
sportico.com | Jacob Feldman |Eben Novy-Williams |Lev Akabas
This week’s Club Sportico steps outside our normal sports discussion to apply an athletics-minded perspective to the big news out of the Vatican City. Eben: I was sitting at my Bloomberg desk in March 2013 when Scott Soshnick (now Sportico’s editor-in-chief) came to me with an idea. The Cardinals were in conclave to pick Pope Benedict XVI’s successor, and one of the frontrunners was an Archbishop named Angelo Scola.
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1 week ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Jacob Feldman |Eben Novy-Williams |Lev Akabas
This week’s Club Sportico steps outside our normal sports discussion to apply an athletics-minded perspective to the big news out of the Vatican City. Eben: I was sitting at my Bloomberg desk in March 2013 when Scott Soshnick (now Sportico’s editor-in-chief) came to me with an idea. The Cardinals were in conclave to pick Pope Benedict XVI’s successor, and one of the frontrunners was an Archbishop named Angelo Scola.
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1 week ago |
club.sportico.com | Eben Novy-Williams |Lev Akabas |Jacob Feldman
Welcome back to Club Sportico, where we break down the intersection of sports and money—with an extra bit of humor and opinion. Today, we talk about the world’s greatest non-sports sporting event. Eben: I was sitting at my Bloomberg desk in March 2013 when Scott Soshnick (now Sportico’s editor-in-chief) came to me with an idea. The Cardinals were in conclave to pick Pope Benedict XVI’s successor, and one of the frontrunners was an Archbishop named Angelo Scola.
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1 week ago |
sportico.com | Kurt Badenhausen |Lev Akabas
In 2011, Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) bought Paris Saint-Germain, then a middling Ligue 1 soccer club, for roughly $75 million. The investment fund tied to the Qatari state spent billions on the operation and has dominated the French league with 10 titles in 12 years—PSG finished second the other two seasons.
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3 weeks ago |
sportico.com | Lev Akabas
Before the 2023-24 season, the NBA introduced its Player Participation Policy (PPP) to encourage stars to play more games, and the results after the first year appeared promising. Not only was there a decrease in instances of “load management,” or players resting for minor injuries, but there was also roughly 15% fewer games missed by star players overall, according to NBA commissioner Adam Silver. This year’s numbers don’t exactly indicate a step backwards, but progress has stalled.
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RT @CrumpledJumper: The algoatrithm: For each year, take the % of available MVP award points won by each player and multiply by 20, 10 or 5…
Active users on DraftKings in Q1 2025 were up about 25% over Q1 2024 https://t.co/p8IoSPDTPq
NBA refs missing offensive fouls in the last two minutes far more than they miss defensive fouls is a very telling stat Lots of very interesting data 👇
From the NBA's L2M reports we can see which calls refs get right **when they call them** (accuracy) and which calls they make **when they actually occur** (recognition) Refs consistently ignore 3 Second Violations, Traveling, and Lane Violations at the end of close games https://t.co/m4zxAUcaSI