Category: League Analysis
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Guest Post: BPM Leaders in the SLB
What is BPM? BPM stands for “box plus minus” and it’s a way of converting basketball box scores into a single value that represents a player’s overall contribution. It can also be presented as both an offensive BPM (OBPM) and defensive BPM (DBPM) to give some more insights into their contribution on both ends. There…
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Court Vision MVP Race: 2025–26
For the first two months of the season, the MVP conversation looked to be settling before it had fully formed. Joel Scott’s early performances stood out, quickly establishing him as the standard everyone else was measured against. His hamstring injury in early December reopened the race. The players below have shaped the league since, each…
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Guest Post: Predicting the SLB Playoff Race
About Me I’m Grant, a.k.a jumpshot_theory, and I’ve been a basketball fan for a long time, since Channel 4 started showing NBA content in the 1990s. After some time away from the sport, I started watching the BBL (as-was) three or four years ago when my kids got some cheap tickets for the Sheffield Sharks…
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Who is the MVP of the SLB?
This season, the league’s most impactful player isn’t dominating the scoreboard. It’s a defensive anchor whose presence changes the game on every possession. 1. Charles Thompson (Leicester Riders) – The Defensive Force Leicester can’t survive without him. That’s the simplest way to explain Thompson’s MVP case. He’s the single most dominant defensive force in the…
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Rock, Paper, Scissors: Leicester, London, Sheffield
The SLB Championship is beginning to take shape, with three teams separating themselves as the clear frontrunners. Here’s how the league stands in terms of net rating: Team NRtg ORtg DRtg Leicester Riders 12.31 119.81 107.50 London Lions 11.86 115.67 103.81 B. Braun Sheffield Sharks 6.06 115.54 109.48 Surrey 89ers -1.53 112.65 114.18 Cheshire Phoenix…
