You've seen the headlines, you've heard the debates. The three-pointer has ruined basketball.

Has it, though? It's a tired conversation that often blames Stefan Curry, but we hear at Metal Arc

crack the code. We found the guy you can blame for the current state of the NBA. What you're about to

hear is a story about one of the founding fathers of NBA analytics, a guy who is known in some

circles as the Bill James of basketball.

Two things make him fascinating. He's completely forgotten. No one knows him.

Dary doesn't know him. No one at MIT Sloan Analytics knows him. And yet there are many people

who don't follow basketball but do know him because of his second act.

When he turned his obsession with efficiency into a roadmap for perfecting his own death and then followed through with it, dark turn.

That was our pitch to 30 for 30.

We teamed up with ESPN and Adam McKay's hyperobject to tell this story and this is a result.

Basketball heaven.

Hope you enjoy.

Some might think it's odd for a man to release the rights of his greatest work,

but not Martin Manley.

I, Martin Manley, being the creator and owner of this site,

neither hold nor retain any claim or copyright on any part of this.

Rather, I release all rights to this work, making it public domain.

Anyone can do with it whatever they wish.

Martin Manley was definitely odd. He slept every other day. For years, he only drank Pepsi.

For the last decade of his life, he wore a fedora at all times, except in church or if he was sleeping.

And he was obsessive about basketball, not the action, but the stats.

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