What the room said about Gradey Dick, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.TOR flair
Id love to get rid of Gradey. He's so ass.
Exhibit 02Negative.NYK flair
I had no idea Gradey is so fucking ass, hope the TikToks continue to work out for him
Exhibit 03Negative.no flair
Get Gradey off this team. Bro hasn't improved since he was drafted, he's straight trash.
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Gradey Dick 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 Gradey Dick, his own Raptors fans are 37% negative, rival fans 17%, unflaired commenters 26%. Fewer than two fanbases have 200 comments about him, so no fanbase stands out.
37.3%Own fansTOR flair · 193 comments
17.2%Rival fansevery other flair · 447 comments
26.3%Unflairedno flair · 300 comments
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Gradey Dick are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Gradey Dick was talked about most on the front page: 298 of his 940 comments, +5 net sentiment against +1 across his season. His harshest room was the game threads, −7 on 29% of his comments; his warmest the front page. The game threads ran 12 points harsher than the front page: his play was graded live.
% neg% posn
Game threads29% of his commentsHarshest29.422.3269
Front page32% of his commentsWarmest20.125.2298
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 Gradey Dick; left out here: Highlights (166), News (133), Post-game threads (60), Daily chat thread (7), Discussion posts (4), Injury posts (1), Lowlights (1). 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 Gradey Dick ran between 6% and 41%. His worst week was the week of May 4, 41% negative of 76 comments; his best the week of Mar 30, 47% positive. 29 of 40 weeks had fewer than 30 comments and are left off the line.
May 4 · 41% negative · 17% positive · 76 commentsNo games
May 11 · 7 comments, under the floorNo games
May 18 · 3 comments, under the floorNo games
May 25 · 2 comments, under the floorNo games
Jun 1 · 4 comments, under the floorNo games
Jun 8 · 9 comments, under the floorNo games
Jun 15 · 9 comments, under the floorNo games
Jun 22 · 21% negative · 19% positive · 43 commentsNo games
Jun 29 · 15 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 Gradey Dick in 0 of his 84 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
+1His season24% neg · 25% pos · 940 comments
The room never reached 20 comments about Gradey Dick in one of his games.