Put the Ball in the Basket!
How well do you need to shoot the ball to win it all? As we continue our look at the Last Ten Champions at each level, we come to the…
Category: Advanced Stats
How Many Turnovers are OK?
We never want turnovers. But let’s face it, you never have a game with zero turnovers. Even if you’re blowing out a team, you’ll have a fast break that ends…
Let’s Talk Rebounding
Let’s talk about the last ten champs have dominated the boards. We’re going to specifically look at Rebounding Percentages, that is, the percentage of available rebounds a team actually collects. …
Is Three the Magic Number? (NAIA Edition)
Let’s look at how the last ten champions at each level of NAIA basketball utilized the three-pointer. On the women’s side, similar to the NCAA, there doesn’t seem to be…
Is Three the Magic Number?
There’s no doubt we’re seeing more and more three-point attempts in college basketball but is three the magic number for winning a championship? In looking at the last ten NCAA…
The Weakest Link
This is not a plea to revive the game show The Weakest Link from 2001. Rather, I recently read a book called The Numbers Game which discusses analytics in the world of…
A ‘Genius’ NCAA Partnership
Last week, the NCAA signed a 10-year data and technology deal with Genius Sports. The agreement was announced on the same day the Supreme Court moved to legalize betting on…
Clutch Stats
If you watch any of the talking head shows on ESPN or Fox, you hear a lot of discussion about whether certain players are ‘clutch’. Not too long ago, Lebron…
Stats School: Assist Percentage
Assist Percentage is the percentage of all field goal attempts assisted by the player while he/she was on the floor. There is no corresponding team percentage because it would be…
About that Google/NCAA Partnership
You probably saw a number of clever commercials throughout the NCAA Tournament about the partnership between Google Cloud and the NCAA. We did some digging to see what this is…