Thank you're is

many years in the making,

many years in the making,

two years ago

over the summer on one of my many summer projects that never sees the light of day.

I got, as you would like to say, lost in the sauce, I was playing with my toolkit for a little bit too long in the sandbox

trying to model outside shooting before we had outside shooting data I was trying to

figure out who the best outside shooters were beyond just

three-point percentages because in the 80s they didn't even take that many threes.

So a lot of the best outside shooters in the 80s, especially the early and mid 80s, we didn't even have much three point data for.

So I had this idea of like, you know, I really want to look at guys outside 15 feet, long twos, we don't have play-by-play data. For those who don't know, play-by-play data is available since

1997 and it does stuff like log every shot. So the scorekeeper at the arena says, you know,

LeBron James, 16 foot jumper missed.

LeBron James, 20, when you see like these long threes,

26 foot three pointer made.

That's just the scorekeeper estimating the distance and

they do a pretty good job. So we have like you know over 25 years of that data

but I was trying to figure out how can we go back even more than those 25 years and so today

the culmination of that there's been a lot of discussion about this recently we

are going to rank the top 74 shooter.

No, we don't have 74, do we?

We have a lot.

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