When last seen, the Statistical Doppelganger Machine was sleuthing the statistical similarities between Bilal Coulibaly and basketball history and producing a list that included Metta World Peace, Brandon Ingram, and Shaedon Sharpe. This time, The Machine turns its algorithm on Alex Sarr.
And immediately runs into some...issues. First, Sarr is fairly unique in basketball history. In the doppelganger machine, an identical match across the 14 categories gets a score of 100. Scores drop from there as player seasons diverge from the reference season. Most players have a few “similars” who score in the 90s. For example, Coulibaly’s second season had four similars that scored in 90 or above.