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Analysis Players 06 Nov 2026

Punter vs Shorts: two opposite EuroLeague shot charts

Kevin Punter and T.J. Shorts both score around 17 points a game. Punter takes 31% of his shots from mid-range, Shorts takes 10.7% of his from three. Their shot charts, against the league's.

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Who Plays Like: find any EuroLeague player's closest match

A new tool that reads how a player's game is shaped and finds the players shaped like him. Pick the trait to match on, lock the position, or hunt for young ones.

Tools 3 min 16 Oct

Which EuroLeague players are better than last season?

A new tool measures every EuroLeague player against himself a year ago, over the same number of games, and says if the jump is real or just more minutes.

Tools 3 min 07 Oct

Your Fantasy Five: build two lineups and find out what they are missing

Pick five players, pick five more, and see what each group actually is. No points, no budget, no scoreline. Just the profile of a team and the holes in it.

September 2026

Analysis 3 min 18 Sep

What PIR sees that points don't

Walter Tavares ranked 82nd in scoring and 21st in PIR. So how is PIR working and who does it help most?

Analysis 3 min 11 Sep

Milutinov: The quiet, elite, team-first center

A 2.13m throwback who takes no threes, barely touches the ball, and bends games anyway. The quiet, elite, team-first center Olympiacos leaned on all season.

Analysis 2 min 09 Sep

Who really creates the most points in EuroLeague 2025-26

A box score counts the points a player scores and buries the ones he creates. So we counted both, from the play-by-play of all 402 games. Who really runs the offense.

Tools 2 min 07 Sep

Define Your Best: rank the EuroLeague your way

Introducing Define Your Best, a tool that lets you set what "best" means. Six sliders, your weights, and the whole EuroLeague re-sorts to your definition.

Analysis 4 min 02 Sep

The steadiest and streakiest scorers in EuroLeague 2025-26

Kevin Punter and Wade Baldwin both averaged 15 points. Punter scored 43 one night and 2 another. Baldwin gave you 15, most nights. We measured which EuroLeague scorers you can count on, and which run hot and cold.

August 2026

Analysis 3 min 28 Aug

Elijah Bryant plays exactly like he lives

The most efficient scoring guard in the EuroLeague is also its most understated. With Elijah Bryant, that was never two facts. It's one.

Analysis 3 min 05 Aug

The Man Who Doesn't Dribble: Inside the Mind of Sasha Vezenkov, the Euroleague MVP

No muscle, no speed, no wasted motion — how Olympiacos' quiet forward outthinks a league built to stop him, and the one place his body still wins.

July 2026

Explainer 2 min 17 Jul

EuroLeague advanced stats: what every number on a player page means.

Most stat pages give you numbers. This one tells you what they mean.

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