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Chart Party: We decided to erase the three-point line forever
Nah, yeah, we did it. We went back and re-scored the entire NBA season as though three-pointers didn’t exist. Along the way we learned a lot of things, none of which are at all important.
A huge special thanks is in order to Basketball-Reference, without which the majority of this research would have been impossible. Actually, I go there on a regular basis to look up and crunch numbers for fun! I should get a dog.
Arbitrarily-selected charts from this episode of Chart Party:
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