What the room said about Anfernee Simons, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.NYK flair
Simons is an inefficient shot chucker who doesn’t play defense. It’s a miracle he would get an offer over 10M per season.
Exhibit 02Negative.LAC flair
Simons is so terrible. Cant do offense or defense wtf
Exhibit 03Negative.POR flair
Simons was ass too
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Anfernee Simons that cleared the classifier's confidence bar
and a second pass confirming it is about him. No usernames: the site judges players, not commenters.
Fans
Of what r/NBA says about Anfernee Simons, his own Bulls fans are 33% negative, rival fans 25%, unflaired commenters 23%. Fewer than two fanbases have 200 comments about him, so no fanbase stands out.
33.3%Own fansCHI flair · 21 comments
24.8%Rival fansevery other flair · 537 comments
23.0%Unflairedno flair · 213 comments
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Anfernee Simons are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Anfernee Simons was talked about most under news posts: 258 of his 771 comments, −3 net sentiment against −5 across his season. His harshest room was the front page, −5 on 33% of his comments; his warmest news posts.
% neg% posn
Front page33% of his commentsHarshest24.919.8257
News33% of his commentsWarmest19.416.3258
Method
A room is the kind of post a comment sat under: a game thread, the front page, a highlight. A room is drawn when it holds at least 200 comments about Anfernee Simons; left out here: Game threads (104), Post-game threads (91), Highlights (44), Lowlights (7), Discussion posts (6). The bar is the room's share of his comments, its split the room's sentiment. Harshest and warmest are by net sentiment, positive minus negative, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Timeline
Over 4-week windows, the negative share of comments about Anfernee Simons ran between 16% and 42%. His worst week was the week of Oct 27, 40% negative of 35 comments; his best the week of Jan 12, 32% positive. 34 of 40 weeks had fewer than 30 comments and are left off the line.
Jun 22 · 9% negative · 15% positive · 46 commentsNo games
Jun 29 · 14 comments, under the floorNo games
OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun
worst week best week · hover or tap a week for its games.
4-week rolling rates from summed counts; weeks under 30 comments are left off the lines.Method
Lines are 4-week rolling rates from summed counts (Σ negative ÷ Σ comments), drawn only where the window holds at least 30 comments. Dots are single weeks, sized by n. Bands follow the season calendar.
Games
The room talked about Anfernee Simons in 0 of his 58 games, at least 20 comments each. Too few graded games on one side to split wins from losses.
—In winstoo few graded wins
—In lossestoo few graded losses
−5His season25% neg · 19% pos · 771 comments
The room never reached 20 comments about Anfernee Simons in one of his games.