tbyers11
02-27-2009, 10:52 AM
Here is a link to a Dear Old UVa (http://www.dearolduva.com/basketball/acc-coaches-on-offense-who-s-good-who-isn-t-and-one-way-to-tell/) blog that uses 2 statistical measurements to determine whether ACC players are good or bad offensively. They plot Offensive Rating vs % Possessions Used. All data is from Ken Pom and here is a link to a brief description (http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/weblog/stats_explained/) of his stats. Note: This data is from the entire season not just ACC play
http://www.dearolduva.com/files/media/image/WindowsLiveWriter/ACCCoachesonoffenseWhosgoodwhoisntandone_8436/acc_players_thumb_2.png
They set arbitrary but reasonable cutoffs for the axes at an ORating of 105 and %Poss at 20. Players in the High Usage Warranted quad are good offensively and have a lot of the offense run through them. Overused players use a lot of their teams possessions but aren't very efficient at it. Basically, you want to have your team's players fall either in the NE quad or the SW quad.
They undertook this analysis to see if their post player, Mike Scott was underused and make additional points about certain players that are labeled on the graph.
As for Duke, here is Ken Pom's data (http://kenpom.com/team.php?y=2009&team=Duke) on the Devils. Singler is the blue diamond that is almost obscured by the purple dot that is Tony Douglas. Gerald is used a little less but has a slighter higher ORating (right below the red triangle for Malcolm Delaney). Jon has an ORating of almost 120 and is bordering on being underused with just over 20% Usage.
Nolan is the only Devil in the overused category and barely so. Zoubek (and Greg and Lance) appear underused. While this isn't a perfect analysis, it reveals a lot about certain players and bears out certain trends about teams. For example, UNC is a very good offensive team because their good players use the ball on offense and their bad ones don't. GTech is not very good on offensive because they have a lot of high usage players with bad offensive efficiency.
I really like this stuff and thought it would be a good way for everyone to waste a few minutes on basketball this afternoon. Hat tip to Rush the Court (http://rushthecourt.net/)for bringing this to my attention.
http://www.dearolduva.com/files/media/image/WindowsLiveWriter/ACCCoachesonoffenseWhosgoodwhoisntandone_8436/acc_players_thumb_2.png
They set arbitrary but reasonable cutoffs for the axes at an ORating of 105 and %Poss at 20. Players in the High Usage Warranted quad are good offensively and have a lot of the offense run through them. Overused players use a lot of their teams possessions but aren't very efficient at it. Basically, you want to have your team's players fall either in the NE quad or the SW quad.
They undertook this analysis to see if their post player, Mike Scott was underused and make additional points about certain players that are labeled on the graph.
As for Duke, here is Ken Pom's data (http://kenpom.com/team.php?y=2009&team=Duke) on the Devils. Singler is the blue diamond that is almost obscured by the purple dot that is Tony Douglas. Gerald is used a little less but has a slighter higher ORating (right below the red triangle for Malcolm Delaney). Jon has an ORating of almost 120 and is bordering on being underused with just over 20% Usage.
Nolan is the only Devil in the overused category and barely so. Zoubek (and Greg and Lance) appear underused. While this isn't a perfect analysis, it reveals a lot about certain players and bears out certain trends about teams. For example, UNC is a very good offensive team because their good players use the ball on offense and their bad ones don't. GTech is not very good on offensive because they have a lot of high usage players with bad offensive efficiency.
I really like this stuff and thought it would be a good way for everyone to waste a few minutes on basketball this afternoon. Hat tip to Rush the Court (http://rushthecourt.net/)for bringing this to my attention.