Quote Originally Posted by uh_no View Post
Unfortunately those statistics are largely meaningless unless they're tempo based. The 2010 team likely would have a much better ranking since they had so few possesions relative to some of our other teams. Furthermore, using the ranking is not a good idea. It would be much better to use the actual number of assists, as the ranking may not actually be comparable year to year, and a tiny change in assists may have resulted in a huge change in ranking, which is not the result we want.

So the best way to do this would again be total assists/(possesions/game) then correlating it with win percentage, or whatever metric you want to use for success in a given year.
Assists as a percentage of made field goals is, I think, the best measure. We've been relatively consistent in this number over the past 10 years, and never posted particularly stellar numbers:

2003 - assists on 49.4% of our field goals (276th nationally)
2004 - 52.8% (219th)
2005 - 49.4% (286th)
2006 - 55.8% (169th - by far our best finish in this period)
2007 - 52.7% (231st)
2008 - 51.5% (244th)
2009 - 50.5% (247th)
2010 - 52.8% (189th)
2011 - 50.9% (233rd)
2012 - 48.4% (295th)

This was a low year, even by our standards. We've averaged 51.4% over the last 10 years - to get there this year we would have needed another 26 assists, or 3 every 4 games.

Broadly speaking, though, I'm not sure this is the best measure of our success.