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 […]
Experimenting with 360 Cameras and Virtual Reality for Basketball
Over the past few years NBA Teams like the Washington Wizards and my Detroit Pistons have been experimenting with use of Virtual Reality to train their players and specifically to […]
“One-offs”- Plays That Often Fall Through the Cracks
One of the challenges we face as coaches is organizing our pre-season practices so that we don’t skip or gloss over any facet of the game. This dilemma is even […]