In past posts we have discussed the concepts of OER (Offensive Efficiency Rating) and DER (Defensive Efficiency Rating) that have been around for at least 50 years. For the very few uninitiated, […]
Advanced Field Goal Percentage Analysis for Basketball Players
How much detail each coach wants to know about his players” FG%’s varies tremendously from coach to coach. I would venture to say that at the NBA level there is […]
Charting Defensive Accountability: Part 2
In Charting Defensive Accountability: Part I earlier we promised further thoughts on charting defensive accountability. If you open the Sample Game file we can begin: The team in question gave […]
Charting Defensive Accountability
In a previous post (Overlooked Old School Advanced Stat-Matchup+/-) we discussed the simplicity and timeliness of the old school thinking of the goal of having each player outscore the opponent […]
Player Usage Rates
Among the popular basketball analytics these days is one called usage rate. The concept is really quite simple as it merely means the number of possessions in a game that […]
Matchup (+/-) An Overlooked, Old-School Advanced Stat
In my playing days, one of my coaches told us that if each of outscored our matchup, we couldn’t lose the game. Of course, I and every one of my […]