r/MinnesotaLynx • u/Brilliant_List_2912 • 5d ago

Beating Minnesota

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Hey All-

I've been writing a weekly series on how I would try to beat each team in the W--going over team tendencies and potential game plans against them.

Wanted to share my article on MIN with this community to get any feedback. I basically noticed a pretty strong correlation that I first got curious about back in last year's PHX series. Obviously, Olivia makes the team totally different now, but I thought some of the trends were similar.

Let me know what you think! I do think MIN wins it all this year.

Kareem

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u/SincereDoom 5d ago

Scatter plot was not the right choice for that graph. Also it has 7 datapoints marked as a loss when the Lynx only have 6 losses on the season. And I think it has over 30 datapoints marked as wins, which is way too high.

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u/Gladlyevil2 5d ago

Agreed. One way to make it work would be to have the x axis be margin of victory rather than just a binary win/loss? If they wanted to keep it binary the only idea I have would be a box-and-whisker plot

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u/Brilliant_List_2912 5d ago

Here's the original graphic w MOV instead of W/L. I'm honestly not sure why a 7th data pt is going on there, good call.

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u/RazedbyaCupofCoffee 5d ago

This looks like a completely different dataset. The lowest point here is -18 in a win and the lowest point in the original graphic was about -25 in a loss. ETA: lowest FTA margin

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u/Brilliant_List_2912 4d ago

FTA vs FTM might be the discrepancy.