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Player model

Threes For Elo

Online player rating for contribution to team made-threes rate.

Status implemented Short Name 3s For
Rating Style impact Where Shown player pages, players leaderboard

Model Card

Sequential event model on made threes per 100 possessions. Positive values mean a player's minutes tend to raise their team's made-three volume.

Validation here is out of sample. From two weeks into each season, a model trained on earlier games predicts each following week without learning from that week. Predictions use the players' observed minutes; each point is the minutes-weighted predicted and actual rate in that player's games. The source inputs were not verified as identical to the published model revision.

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Season

Held-out player predictions

Plot Threes For Elo against any counting stat (one point per player, every season with a served list).

No current held-out results for this selection. Held-out player validation covers APM, RAPM and the event models.

Stat RAPM or event Elo, per season

Each season serves one method for this stat: the one whose predictions followed the actual per-segment margin better on held-out games (fit before a date, scored on later segments). Correlations are small in absolute terms; a segment holds about one such event.

League Season Serves Stat RAPM Event Elo Held-out segments
NCAAM 2013-2014 stat RAPM 0.087 0.083 61742
NCAAM 2012-2013 stat RAPM 0.091 0.089 55711
NCAAM 2011-2012 stat RAPM 0.082 0.076 55397
NCAAM 2010-2011 stat RAPM 0.085 0.059 53595
NBA 2025-2026 stat RAPM 0.079 0.058 16974

Output Coverage

Rows in each model's current published run (or legacy rows where no run is selected).

League Season Rows
WNBA 2026 217
NCAAW 2026-2027 2463
NCAAW 2025-2026 4434
NCAAW 2024-2025 3730
NCAAW 2023-2024 3367
NCAAW 2021-2022 3967
NCAAW 2020-2021 3010
NCAAW 2018-2019 3661
NCAAW 2017-2018 3559
NCAAW 2015-2016 2214
NCAAW 2014-2015 1601
NCAAW 2013-2014 2117
NCAAM 2026-2027 2849
NCAAM 2025-2026 4582
NCAAM 2023-2024 3858
NCAAM 2022-2023 4200
NCAAM 2021-2022 3922
NCAAM 2020-2021 3226
NCAAM 2019-2020 3289
NCAAM 2018-2019 3619
NCAAM 2017-2018 3562
NCAAM 2016-2017 3689
NCAAM 2015-2016 3828
NCAAM 2014-2015 3760
NCAAM 2009-2010 3951
NBA 2026-2027 373
NBA 2024-2025 531
NBA 2023-2024 529
NBA 2022-2023 504
NBA 2021-2022 534
NBA 2020-2021 515
NBA 2019-2020 445