Seth Partnow's Top 125 Players - With Seth Partnow

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Seth Partnow's Top 125 Players - With Seth Partnow

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44 minutes

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Aug 12, 2022

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Taylor sits down with The Athletic's Seth Partnow to discuss his top 125 players list. He explains his process on how his tiering system works. Later they talk about his book The Mid Range Theory, and they wrap up the show with Seth teasing what he's working on over at StatsBomb.

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Aug 12, 2022

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Taylor and Tim/Cranjis McBasketball, dive deep into the data and analytics to provide detailed and contextualized analysis of the broader NBA. bball-index.combluewirepods.com

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Seth Partnow's Top 125 Players - With Seth Partnow

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