. . . just one more thing. (Note to self: better planning needed for future posts.) Going into this season, Coach Izzo indicated he planned to pick up the tempo on offense to take advantage of MSU’s improved depth and athleticism. Let take a quick look at whether that’s really happened. The stat to look [...]
Archive for November, 2007
In the words of Peter Falk . . .
Posted in basketball, msu, stats analysis on November 23, 2007 | Comments Off
The rest of the story on offense
Posted in basketball, msu, stats analysis on November 23, 2007 | Comments Off
So let’s take a few minutes to talk about the rest of the MSU offense. Shooting the ball (as measured by PPWS) is certainly important, but there are two other key statistical components to offensive performance: Turnovers: How often a team forfeits the chance to shoot the ball by giving it away to the other [...]
Where to start
Posted in basketball, msu, stats analysis on November 23, 2007 | Comments Off
Well, let’s start with the basics: putting that orange, bouncing ball in the hoop thing with the net attached to it. Let’s see how MSU has scored baskets through four games. (Note: Exhibition games are not included in official college basketball statistics and will, therefore, not be acknowledged by this blog. Football games against Division [...]
Why this blog exists
Posted in basketball, general, msu on November 23, 2007 | 6 Comments »
A long, long time ago (this past March) in a land far, far away (Indiana), there lived a college basketball analyst called the Big Ten Wonk. And Big Ten basketball fans everywhere could look forward each and every day of the basketball season to reading witty and statistically-sound commentary on the greatest college conference in [...]
