Dean Oliver

@DeanO_Lytics · Washington, DC · joined 19 Jul 2012

Book #2 is Basketball Beyond Paper. Book #1 got me famous. I do sports analytics, mostly hoops. Now at ESPN, teach @SMWW, doing science of credit division.

26 459Followers

566Following

9 509Posts total

1.9MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views3 566this account2 578median for 10K–100K

Reach, %13.48%this account7.77%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.05%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 566	2 578	1.38×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	13.48%	7.77%	1.73×
Engagement rate	1.05%	1.47%	0.71×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.9M4 Nov

2.1K1 Sep

4.4K2 Sep

3.4K3 Sep

3.8K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.76%4 Nov

0.78%1 Sep

1.32%2 Sep

1.34%3 Sep

0.53%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes90.8%14 107 in total

Reposts2.9%456 in total

Replies0.4%59 in total

Quotes0.4%61 in total

Bookmarks5.5%856 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Projecting how the penalties will affect the Clippers' future success. Zach does a good look into it. https://t.co/JyxS77MM0d 3.8K views · 16 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 The Atlanta Hawks mini-preview and my analytics contribution: their own golden lineup. https://t.co/J3nAKdiPAH https://t.co/BYHuZUnENE 3.4K views · 39 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 The Hornets' mini-preview and my analytical contribution. I am frankly conflicted on these guys. They don't have bad players and improving as much as they did last year is a good sign. But so much of that improvement was a lineup that is gone. https://t.co/Y8JJfUYM57 https://t 4.4K views · 50 likes · 3 reposts · 5 replies 02 Sep 2026 The Wizards mini-preview and my analytical contribution: The Wizards' home court disadvantage. Not discussed, but shown: the predictions of individual performance aren't great. AD's missed games at his age not a great sign. Dybantsa probably solid. https://t.co/zVlDZnpt6J https 2.1K views · 15 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 It's been almost 40 years since I created Offensive Ratings for teams. I was a college kid. I don't know if I dreamed it would be used so much. My lens was that it helped *me*. Am very happy that the sport embraced the metrics and hope that it helps others as much as it did me. h 1.9M views · 14K likes · 445 reposts · 51 replies 04 Nov 2025