What the room said about Marvin Bagley III, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.DET flair
He was one of the worst players on the Pistons squad from two years ago which is saying a lot because they lost 28 straight games. Far worse than Bagley.
Exhibit 02Negative.SAC flair
When you let Marvin Double Jump Bagley put up an efficient 22 on you, you’re cooked.
Exhibit 03Negative.no flair
And my Kings were like nah. You know who's gonna be good? Marvin Bagley the Third. Yup. They drafted him over Luka
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Marvin Bagley III 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 Marvin Bagley III, his own Mavericks fans are 45% negative, rival fans 56%, unflaired commenters 60%. Fewer than two fanbases have 200 comments about him, so no fanbase stands out.
44.8%Own fansDAL flair · 29 comments
55.6%Rival fansevery other flair · 441 comments
60.1%Unflairedno flair · 238 comments
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Marvin Bagley III are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Marvin Bagley III was talked about most on the front page: 329 of his 708 comments, −53 net sentiment against −46 across his season. His harshest room was the front page; his warmest news posts, −50 on 33% of his comments.
% neg% posn
Front page46% of his commentsHarshest61.17.6329
News33% of his commentsWarmest57.07.2235
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 Marvin Bagley III; left out here: Highlights (50), Post-game threads (45), Game threads (40), Daily chat thread (1), 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 Marvin Bagley III ran between 39% and 79%. His worst week was the week of Nov 10, 79% negative of 34 comments; his best the week of Jun 22, 13% positive. 34 of 40 weeks had fewer than 30 comments and are left off the line.
May 4 · 73% negative · 10% positive · 30 commentsNo games
May 11 · 21 comments, under the floorNo games
May 18 · 9 comments, under the floorNo games
May 25 · 18 comments, under the floorNo games
Jun 1 · 7 comments, under the floorNo games
Jun 8 · 8 comments, under the floorNo games
Jun 15 · 19 comments, under the floorNo games
Jun 22 · 50% negative · 13% positive · 30 commentsNo games
Jun 29 · 4 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 Marvin Bagley III in 0 of his 63 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
−46His season57% neg · 10% pos · 708 comments
The room never reached 20 comments about Marvin Bagley III in one of his games.