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I love working with coaches and showing them how statistics can impact their team. Recently, a coach I’ve worked with for a few season at the NCAA Division III level asked me ‘how do we measure up to some of the top teams in the country?’ In other words, she saw improvement in various numbers …
As another basketball (or really any sport) season approaches, how can you use stats to improve your team? 1. Get yourself some good stats – this is the first hurdle and the reason I designed StatGeek, but there are a lot of good programs out there. I’m obviously biased but whether you have a few …
Recently we made some changes to our website. We added a LOT of stats. Now you’re probably thinking, you’re called StatGeek, I would expect a lot of stats. But really up until this summer, we’ve focused on creating tools to make coaches’ lives easier. But earlier this year, women’s basketball legend Sue Bird wrote about …
This weekend the NCAA Division III Women’s Championship Semi-finals will take place and in a cool twist, the winners get some time off before playing for the title on April 4th in Indianapolis where the Division I and II championships will also take place. We took a look at the stats behind the final four …
The Division III Men’s Basketball Championship will tip off this weekend in Salem, VA. The participants include the 2011 champs, St. Thomas, the 2013 champs (and requisite NESCAC team) Amherst along with Christopher Newport and Benedictine who combined for exactly one loss this season. We crunched some numbers from the participants over the last five …
Effective Field Goal Percentage is often confused with True Shooting Percentage. While true shooting percentage brings free throws into the mix in order to more accurately gauge how points are scored, effective field goal percentage focuses on shot attempts from the field and accounts for the fact that three pointers are worth more. The formula …
True Shooting Percentage True shooting percentage shows you how well a player is shooting when you factor in three pointers and free throws. It is calculated as follows: Points/(2*(FGA + 0.44*FTA)) The 0.44 lowers the value of the free throw attempt because the shot is uncontested and only worth one point. The adjustment also provides …
One of my first jobs as an assistant coach was to maintain the shot chart on the sideline. I did mine using paper and pencil on the sideline. My hand writing is less than stellar so sometimes at halftime or after the game, it would be difficult to even read what I had created.Our new …
When I’m talking about StatGeek, I often get asked about where the idea for the company came from. After answering it a few hundred times, I figured out that this was something just about everyone was interested in, so here is a brief history behind the origin of StatGeek. I began coaching at the Division …