Alright, Wednesday night edition of the pod and a new guest that I wanted to bring on a guy who whose work has intrigued me even going back to 2002 when I first started reading him.

He's a bit of a shadowy figure because his Twitter handle is kind of doesn't isn't really very self-explanatory but his name is Ben Taylor has been doing an awesome series at his site backpicks.com

with doing some historical rankings from a different perspective and with some data that I haven't seen it anywhere else.

I wanted to have him on the show talk a little bit about his philosophy and then get into the historical rankings that he's done.

He still has 8 to go but I wanted to talk to him about his methodology and where he is so far through the 9 through 40 and then we will have him back on to talk about his top 8.

But enough introduction here we're just talking before the show of how I don't do that much introduction but here's Ben Taylor. How you doing man?

Thanks for having me. I'm glad to be here and I have been described as many things. I don't know if shadowy figure is one of them.

Well, I'm a little bit worried.

Your Twitter handle is LG 35. Where does that come from? Because that is not in fact your initials.

Wow, no one has ever asked me that. LG is for the phonetic letters LNG just spelled out.

That actually comes from a nickname that a girlfriend gave me a very long time ago which stands for something that I can't repeat on air.

And the 35 was my number when I played.

That's a great way to get started.

I never really knew what that was. So it's just one of those sort. You just have so many sunk costs now with that handle that you don't want to change it.

You know you can just change it and you don't lose any followers.

I used to be the team rebound back when I was working as a lawyer and I wasn't sure whether I wanted people to know who I was at the law firm.

I wasn't sure how they were going to take it.

And then when I started with basketball insiders I changed it to Nate Duncan MBA and I didn't lose any of my like you know 400 followers or whatever that I had at the time.

You know, this is serendipitous because I was just thinking today is that just stuck in stone forever or can I change it?

So maybe I will now maybe you've inspired me.

So I introduced you shadowy figure intro aside.

You do have a little bit different of an approach to analytics to talking about basketball.

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