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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Here are the complete Nelli Score rankings for all ACC players (arranged by school). Enjoy!
“My favorite player is better than yours!” “No way, my favorite player is way better!” If I had a dollar for every time this particular conversation occurred in the Nelli household, I would have retired long ago. My brothers and I have had spirited debates, heated arguments, and physical altercations over which athlete is […]
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