What this site is for
ShamSports began as a place to study the NBA's basketball-operations side in more detail than was generally available elsewhere. It has changed shape several times since then, but its central interest has remained the same: how basketball teams identify players, manage money and turn rules into competitive advantage.
The site is deliberately broad because team building is broad. Scouting, roster construction, contracts, transaction rules, market value and long-term planning all overlap. ShamSports concentrates chiefly on two of those areas: evaluating players and understanding the salary cap.
It is also, candidly, a working CV. The database, tools and writing collected here show the kind of subjects I research, the level of detail I enjoy and the type of work I want to keep doing. The site will never be entirely finished, because the player pool changes every day and the rules never stay still for long.
Player database and scouting
A large, continuously developed record of professional prospects and players from the NBA, G League, college basketball, Europe and international competition.
Salary-cap research
Tools and explanations intended not merely to state the numbers, but to show how the Collective Bargaining Agreement shapes the choices available to teams.
Independent basketball work
Writing, research, consultancy and media work concerned with players, transactions, roster construction and the rules governing all three.