After working on my team ranking system for lacrosse, I decided to go back and work one up for basketball as well. I’ve always liked Dean Oliver’s Four Factors, so I thought I would take those and combine them to create my own offense and defense ratings for each ACC team. For those who are […]
To no surprise of anyone, it turns out being a solely offensive or defensive team isn’t really the best way to win games. It is important for a team to be balanced on both sides of the ball. Score a lot of goals, but be difficult to score on. Be a wall at the back, […]
Well, after doing some extensive research into offensive numbers in lacrosse, I decided to do the same for the other side of the ball. It has long been said that offense can win games, but defense wins championships. So naturally, I set out to see just how much defense correlates to a winning program. As […]
As I have discussed in my previous post, I have been researching what offensive statistics make for a great lacrosse team. I wrote about what I call the Four Offensive Factors of Lacrosse, and how some the nation’s top teams fared in those statistics. Today, I have combined all Four Factors to come up with […]
As mentioned in my previous post, I believe a team’s offensive statistics can be broken down into 4 categories to affect winning. Below, I have included the Four Factors for all Division I teams. You can also see the individual balances of these statistics affect winning percentage. Keep in mind, none of these statistics take […]
In short, wins. Wins make great lacrosse teams. Wins make great teams in any sport. At the end of the day, wins are the only thing that matters. Not points, not style, not possession, not defense, but wins. Of course, as a coach, you can’t just tell your team to win and be successful. You […]
The Player Efficiency Rating (PER) is John Hollinger’s attempt at the tell-all basketball statistic. As mentioned before, this type of statistic is almost impossible because there is no true way to gauge everything a player contributes simply from box score statistics. Yet, we all try and most likely always will. The PER statistic has become […]
One of the most difficult things to measure in sports is how does a player affect the team performance. Just by looking at a box score, you can see how many assists and rebounds any given player had. However, these statistics don’t always tell if and how much a player affected the team performance. A […]
After evaluating player efficiencies, I found myself curious as to whether efficient teams are more likely to win than teams that simply win more possessions via face-offs. In order to compare, I took info from 40 different NCAA teams, calculated both their offensive efficiency and face off percentage, and then checked for which one had […]
Over the last 15 years or so, the definition of great basketball offenses has shifted from how much a team scores to how much a team scores per possession. A team that scores 91 points per game on 90 possessions looks impressive on paper, but in reality is operating less efficiently than a team that […]
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