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 […]
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 […]
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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