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Richyyy
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 Posted: 05/02/24 11:47 am ::: Ranking the W |
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Welcome, one and all, to the first-ever edition of Ranking the W.
We’re introducing Ranking the W to create a snapshot of the consensus expectations of WNBA player performance in 2024. We invited an international panel of over 100 writers, reporters, analysts and broadcasters from around the world of women's basketball to lend their expertise to this exercise. Thanks to all of them for their time and input.
Participants were asked to vote on player vs. player matchups with the question "Who will be the better WNBA player in 2024?", taking into account both performance and availability. Voting was anonymous among the invitees, so no one had to be worried about their hot takes being stolen or being embarrassed later in the year if a choice turns out to be wildly inaccurate. |
Today's the introduction and a few players who didn't quite make the list. 50 up to 1 coming next week.
https://herhoopstats.substack.com/p/introducing-ranking-the-w-2024-wnba-players |
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| Posted: 05/03/24 9:13 am ::: |
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| Nice intro piece. This is gonna be fun.
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| Posted: 05/06/24 1:36 pm ::: |
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The first part is up covering #50 to #26.
https://herhoopstats.substack.com/p/ranking-the-w-2024-wnba-best-players-top-50
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#50 Lexie Brown
As we saw with some of the near-miss names last week, there's going to be an element of "prove it" to some of the players who crept onto this list near the bottom. Brown looked great at the start of last season, averaging over 12 points per game and shooting nearly 42% from 3-point range, then lost 28 games to what eventually turned out to be undiagnosed Crohn's disease. We've seen the heights Brown can reach but as mentioned before, we asked voters to take into account projected availability as well as performance. Understandably, some may not have been sure if she'll be able to jump straight back to those levels from early 2023, or if she'll manage to stay on the court for 40 games. Also, spoiler alert, but you're about to read a list with very few Los Angeles Sparks players appearing on it. Fears about team performance may have lowered expectations for any of the individual players involved. |
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| Posted: 05/06/24 2:35 pm ::: |
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| ...Brown looked great at the start of last season, averaging over 12 points per game and shooting nearly 42% from 3-point range, then lost 28 games to what eventually turned out to be undiagnosed Crohn's disease... |
Wow, I did not know she was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. That's a tough diagnosis. I just looked it up and I found a short video that she posted. She said it took 7 months to get diagnosed, but hopefully it was still detected early. In her video, she briefly chronicled going to the hospital for her first treatment, which took about 3 hours. Hopefully the treatment is going well for her, it has put her Crohn's in remission, and (since she will likely be on that treatment forever) it keeps her Crohn's in remission.
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| Posted: 05/07/24 2:39 pm ::: |
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| Great work as always.
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| Posted: 05/08/24 6:03 pm ::: |
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| I'm guessing the top five are Boston, Loyd, Stewart, Thomas, and Wilson (obviously not in that order)
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| Posted: 05/08/24 9:34 pm ::: |
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Thanks pilight, meant to come and post that. 5 to 1 coming tomorrow. |
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