What the room said about Kyle Lowry, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.MIA flair
Miami could have let Lowry’s contract expire, but chose to ship him with a FRP for this fraud.
Exhibit 02Negative.CHA flair
Can't wait to see Kyle Lowry shoot 0.1% from the field in the big 2032
Exhibit 03Negative.NYK flair
Lowry is washed and saggy.
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Kyle Lowry 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 Kyle Lowry, his own 76ers fans are 41% negative, rival fans 25%, unflaired commenters 25%. Fewer than two fanbases have 200 comments about him, so no fanbase stands out.
40.6%Own fansPHI flair · 106 comments
24.7%Rival fansevery other flair · 748 comments
25.3%Unflairedno flair · 423 comments
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Kyle Lowry are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Kyle Lowry was talked about most on the front page: 670 of his 1,277 comments, +9 net sentiment against +7 across his season. His harshest room was news posts, −5 on 16% of his comments; his warmest the front page.
% neg% posn
Front page52% of his commentsWarmest26.035.4670
News16% of his commentsHarshest29.825.0208
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 Kyle Lowry; left out here: Game threads (190), Highlights (151), Post-game threads (45), Injury posts (8), Lowlights (4), Discussion posts (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 Kyle Lowry ran between 17% and 33%. His worst week was the week of Jan 26, 43% negative of 30 comments; his best the week of May 18, 47% positive. 24 of 40 weeks had fewer than 30 comments and are left off the line.
May 4 · 31% negative · 28% positive · 108 commentsNo games
May 11 · 22 comments, under the floorNo games
May 18 · 23% negative · 47% positive · 30 commentsNo games
May 25 · 11 comments, under the floorNo games
Jun 1 · 20 comments, under the floorNo games
Jun 8 · 24% negative · 42% positive · 33 commentsNo games
Jun 15 · 38% negative · 29% positive · 112 commentsNo games
Jun 22 · 21% negative · 26% positive · 43 commentsNo games
Jun 29 · 8 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 Kyle Lowry in 0 of his 16 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
+7His season26% neg · 33% pos · 1,277 comments
The room never reached 20 comments about Kyle Lowry in one of his games.