What is PER in Basketball? John Hollinger devised an all in one basketball rating adjusted to pace of play and an individual’s playing time to […]
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What is a “good” basketball possession?
Would You Rather Score or Have a Good Possession? Obviously, the answer is both but realistically if you have 70 possessions in a game, for […]
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Free Technology That Makes Coaches Lives Easier – (Updated)
Being a coach is time consuming enough. Between practices, workouts, weight lifting, parent meetings, more parent meetings and dealing with your school’s administration there really […]
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Ball Reversals and the Positive Correlation with Points per Possession
I recently moved from my longtime high school gig to a volunteer position working for my old college coach. While I certainly miss running my […]
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Best Analytic? A Vote for “True Game Value” and “True Season Value”
(This article continues the thinking described in the recent “Is the Whole Truly Better than the Sum of the Parts?” article.) This past season we […]
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Is the Whole Truly Greater Than the Sum of the Parts?
The cute, little aphorism of the “whole being greater than the sum of the parts” as it applies to basketball teams is usually meant to […]
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