the 2026 Dallas Wings are averaging 13.7 fast break points per game, which is more than any team has averaged in a season over the last few years (excluding all star teams 🙂) hopefully they keep it up today so i can make a video about it!

if you feel like there have been more fouls than usual so far this season... working on a full video for tomorrow on my instagram! #wnba

Catch this week's newsletter! 3 Episodes On: The WNBA and Women’s Basketball | WNBA Data with Maddy Brown | The WNBA and Equality | Where in the World: Portland and Toronto @wnbadata.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.substack.com/p/5-7

Why is Women's Basketball More Popular Than Ever?

The WNBA, B-ball data, Claudia Goldin, and expansion teams

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i am working on my next wnba stat school video about the four factors of basketball, with the Aces as the main example :)) #wnba #lasvegasaces #sportsanalytics

working on some charts for my next video about AT :))))

Perri Page and Columbia have won 23 straight opening tips ahead of today's Ivy Madness semifinals, per Columbia Athletics. @herhoopstats.com's @wnbadata.bsky.social finds that teams that win the tip are slightly more likely than their pregame odds suggest to win the game. #NCAAWBB

Does Winning the Opening Tip Move Win Probability in NCAA WBB?

What almost 4,500 games say about a play that’s over in a blink

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I was looking for a WBB version of BracketMatrix and couldn't find any, so I fired up Codex and made one myself. (It’ll update every few hours until Selection Sunday, but not much will change now.) I'll plan to host it properly next season, but for now it’s here: whitakk.github.io/wbb-bracket-...

Today’s newsletter is a behind‑the‑scenes of my StudBudz Unrivaled 1‑on‑1 video. Picking the hook, logging the games, deciding what not to explain on screen, and how I use stats without losing the fun. link: wnbadata.beehiiv.com/p/how-i-turn...

How I Turned the StudBudz Into a Data Story

Behind the scenes of my Unrivaled 1‐on‐1 video, from spreadsheet to scatterplot to TikTok

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i loved this Unrivaled lineup deep dive by Dan Falkenheim at Sports Illustrated, so I turned his rankings into a chart + quick explainer video ⬇️ www.si.com/ranking-top-...

Ranking the Top Lineups in Unrivaled for the 2026 Season

Unrivaled provides a clean laboratory for measuring the successes—and failures—of certain lineups. Unlike its five-on-five counterpart, three-on-three basketbal

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I love @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social Elam Ending, but it hasn’t felt like a lot of comebacks, so I checked: 11 of 79 games are 3Q comebacks (~14%) WNBA 2016–2025 ~15.9% have 3Q comeback small samples, but I kinda expected the 11 point target to increase comeback wins, not stay around WNBA levels!

NBA Fans! The @joinoffside.bsky.social beta is available now!! - Stat comparisons - Video content/breakdowns from fans/analysts of the team -Much, much more! Would appreciate all feedback as we're trying to make the best product possible. Download the IOS beta here: offside.gg/beta

I explain WNBA data to 13K+ people on TikTok. Then I taught it in a college classroom. Here's what surprised me about teaching sports analytics (and why communication matters more than code) wnbadata.beehiiv.com/p/hot-take-t...

i turned my wnba tiktok into a college course this summer taught 21 students at UW how to turn sports data into stories people actually care about. we went to a Storm game, learned data viz, and they made their own explainer videos wrote about the whole thing: wnbadata.beehiiv.com/p/i-turned-m...

just finished scheduling tomorrow’s blog post, subscribe to get it in your inbox in the morning! wnbadata.beehiiv.com

I'm back with my latest data-driven wbb article: No one is wearing 67 (and other jersey number crimes) read it here! wnbadata.beehiiv.com/p/no-one-is-... #ncaawbb #collegebasketball

they could never make me gatekeep vintage #wnba #eBay

🏀 my second-ever newsletter is here! let's use data and statistics to win Unrivaled's free throw challenge 😈 wnbadata.beehiiv.com/p/using-empi... #unrivaled #unrivaledwbb

Using Empirical Bayes to Win Unrivaled's $50K Free Throw Challenge

Dive into the statistical strategy behind Unrivaled's $50K Free Throw Challenge, using Empirical Bayes to predict the most likely winner in this data-driven basketball analysis.

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fans of referee data your time is now! someone (not me) scraped foul calls by ref in 2025 and was nice enough to share it on github github.com/iDoScienc/wn... #wnba #data

GitHub - iDoScienc/wnba_fouls_by_ref

Contribute to iDoScienc/wnba_fouls_by_ref development by creating an account on GitHub.

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🚨 Hey everyone! I just published my first-ever newsletter to accompany my wnbadata TikToks 😈 Expect more data visualizations and tangents from my "research" in the future, and let me know what you want to see! Check it out and subscribe (free!) here wnbadata.beehiiv.com/p/maddy-s-fi... #wnba #data

Maddy's First Data Dump!

I'm still trying to figure this out

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can any Lynx fans tell me if they do giveaways based on in-game events, like missed free throws? this is part 4 of my wnba investigations, the most suspicious thing so far being how good the Lynx are at hitting requirements for giveaways that don’t apply to them www.instagram.com/reel/DR-ztOV...

Maddy wnbadata on Instagram: "🛩️ this started as a Seattle Storm investigation, and turned into a Minnesota Lynx conspiracy 🤔 where are the Lynx promos? #seattlestorm #wnba"

The Seattle Storm and Minnesota Lynx promo conspiracy is a hot topic among WNBA fans. In this post, we'll explore the details of Intrepid Travel's ultimate adventure giveaway and examine the attendanc...

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my junk journal for the @homefield.bsky.social black friday sale 😏 www.homefieldapparel.com?rfsn=7443818...

ALL THREE SEATTLE STORM FANS TO THE FRONT 😀 We did our 2025 Seattle Storm recap with everybody’s favorite data knower, Maddy aka @wnbadata.bsky.social ! Tune as we talk about the future of Seattle!

Cathy Engelbert can fix the WNBA CBA with this one simple trick!!! @wnbadata.bsky.social

How Becky Hammon switched up the Aces’ defensive strategy to help them win the championship 🏆 @wnbadata.bsky.social

another banger for suzanne! #suebird #jewellloyd #wnbaplayoffs

The Aces really won it all 🏆 @wnbadata.bsky.social puts their weird championship season into context!

@wnbadata.bsky.social on how huge free throws were in Game 3 of the WNBA Finals. Tough for the Mercury 😬

Breaking down WNBA Finals Game 1 through code 👀 @wnbadata.bsky.social How great are the Mercury in the fourth quarter? Is the Aces' new bench strategy working? Should Alyssa Thomas have made those free throws (statistically)?