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One thing that analytics can do is see the future. It's like a superpower without the movies made about it.
ESPN's analytics superpower for the NBA is the Basketball Power Index (BPI). The superpower isn't perfect, but it is better at seeing the future than the average guy doing clicker finger reps on League Pass. It sees how good teams were before, how they have changed, and who they have to play. It adjusts to the teams that overperformed underperformed, based on the players in the game.
For example, the BPI understands the Memphis Grizzlies underperformed last year with Ja Morant playing just nine games and the injury-riddled team giving plenty of minutes to guys who won't get them this season.