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
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-...
might turn this into a little series of “creator diaries” for women’s hoops stats content, what parts of the process would you want to see next?
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...
my chart 😮
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-...
list of the 11 3Q comebacks in unrivaled history through jan 2026
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!
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me doing math on TikTok and then me doing math on a whiteboard!
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...
tabby cat sniffing the computer keyboard
screenshot of preview of article "I turned my WNBA TikTok into a college course"
just finished scheduling tomorrow’s blog post, subscribe to get it in your inbox in the morning! wnbadata.beehiiv.com
an old CRT computer monitor with the article "no one is wearing 67" on it with other TVs playing a basketball game in the background
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
🏀 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
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
🚨 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
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
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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!!!
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How Becky Hammon switched up the Aces’ defensive strategy to help them win the championship 🏆
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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)?
Napheesa Collier called out the WNBA’s lack of transparency in her strong statement.
@wnbadata.bsky.social proves that the inconsistent ref data is definitely shady.
What are they hiding?
Was the Mercury’s 20-point comeback vs. the Lynx really the 3rd-largest in WNBA playoff history?? Who are first and second??? Why doesn’t Google have the answer??????
@wnbadata.bsky.social had to investigate.
Can you predict who makes or even wins the WNBA playoffs by looking at bench production?
@wnbadata.bsky.social breaks it down.
