To each their own. I don’t find made up numbers to be useful. Fiction is fiction. Some people enjoy reading it, I’m not one of them especially when people circulate it like it’s real. I’d rather watch nonsense on tv.
I’m not sure I would say Miyakawa is well respected. He’s a quant from Baylor who has been very active on social media amongst the analytics crowd. His stuff is interesting, but I’m not sure he is well-sourced, he doesn’t do any actual hoops analysis whatsoever, and his formulas have produced some really weird results (just pertaining to us, he had way underrated our transfers by not projecting increased minutes or opportunities, he had us insanely lower than everyone else to start the season, and he also rated Martin and Aberdeen as average to bad defenders). He does a pretty interesting job with lineup data and with his offensive rating (probably the guy who began touting Haugh’s contributions on that end before the rest), but I would not put him anywhere near the better analytics guys (Torvik, KP, Pauga, or the new WAB guy), let alone actual hoops insiders or legit “eye test” guys.
