I was about to get started writing what I thought would be a fun piece about Corey Kispert’s statistical doppelgangers. I figured The Machine would spit out a list of good shooters, and it does. But I kept getting stuck on some of the narratives about Kispert that...well...don’t hold up under scrutiny.
The biggest of these is that of Kispert’s improvement. The Official Narrative is that he’s gotten better. Except...he hasn’t. Here’s his progression year by year, according to my PPA metric.
(PPA is my all-around rating system that rewards players for doing things that help a team win and dings them for things that hurt the cause.