Pith Number

pith:37NVHBGK

pith:2026:37NVHBGKQMCNKUC66LLGWGRHJ2

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Quantifying Officiating Impact in the NBA: A Referee Impact Metric Analysis Using ESPN Win-Probability Data

Leo Benaharon, Nirek Duma

arxiv:2605.17845 v1 · 2026-05-18 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{37NVHBGKQMCNKUC66LLGWGRHJ2}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-20T00:05:01.402234Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dfdb5384ca8304d5505ef2d66b1a274e87a4df9bf13feb34fe59f7343b42ff76

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17845 · arxiv_version: 2605.17845v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17845 · pith_short_12: 37NVHBGKQMCN · pith_short_16: 37NVHBGKQMCNKUC6 · pith_short_8: 37NVHBGK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/37NVHBGKQMCNKUC66LLGWGRHJ2 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: dfdb5384ca8304d5505ef2d66b1a274e87a4df9bf13feb34fe59f7343b42ff76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d7d702ca9ad2ee207bc4d2e223ebea9046f08b1ac604ee90cd962c19bd72a91",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T04:36:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52da1a6b94b46172702e091f3086ae4790394e7110769672fe8011279fdd3cc4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.17845",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}