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Player model

Threes RAPM

Ridge-regularized lineup regression of made threes per 100 possessions.

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

Model Card

RAPM on the per-segment margin of made threes (own minus opponent per 100 possessions), fit only on games whose play-by-play made threes equal the box exactly. The ridge penalty is chosen by game-level cross-validation. Positive values mean a player's minutes raise their team's made threes relative to the opponent's. Held-out check (date split: fit before a date, score later segments; ncaam 2022-23 and 2023-24, ncaaw 2023-24): correlation with the actual per-segment margin 0.087-0.117 for this model, 0.076-0.106 for the event Elo it replaces. Small in absolute terms: a segment holds about one such event.

Validation is computed for team models, APM, RAPM and the event models. This page shows output coverage and site placement for this model.

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Held-out player predictions

Plot Threes RAPM 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: stat RAPM when its predictions followed the actual per-segment margin better on held-out games (fit before a date, scored on later segments) by more than two paired standard errors; within that the two are tied and the event Elo serves. Correlations are small in absolute terms; a segment holds about one such event.

League Season Serves Stat RAPM Event Elo Paired SE Held-out segments
NCAAM 2014-2015 stat RAPM 0.091 0.078 0.0027 58595
NCAAM 2013-2014 stat RAPM (within noise (tie); stat RAPM served under the earlier rule) 0.087 0.083 0.0033 61742
NCAAM 2012-2013 stat RAPM (within noise (tie); stat RAPM served under the earlier rule) 0.091 0.089 0.0033 55711
NCAAM 2011-2012 stat RAPM (within noise (tie); stat RAPM served under the earlier rule) 0.082 0.076 0.0033 55397
NCAAM 2010-2011 stat RAPM 0.085 0.059 0.0042 53595
NCAAM 2009-2010 event Elo (within noise (tie)) 0.089 0.084 0.0032 59543
NBA 2025-2026 stat RAPM 0.079 0.058 0.0060 16974

Output Coverage

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

League Season Rows
NCAAM 2014-2015 4663
NCAAM 2013-2014 4681
NCAAM 2012-2013 4532
NCAAM 2011-2012 4511
NCAAM 2010-2011 4477
NBA 2025-2026 579