2010-big-ten-basketball Stories - The Only Colors
Inside the Numbers: Scoring effectively
Ken Pomeroy's diatribe on the uselessness of overall FG percentage as a statistic in the three-point line era got me thinking. Are Big Ten teams doing themselves a favor with their current shot selection? Heeding Pomeroy's advice, I examined a few more meaningful shooting metrics. First some...
Three Down ....
This Minnesota Golden Gophers team wanted respect. Now they have it. Over the last three days, the Gophers whipped Penn State, the team that the pundits said "no one wanted to play." Then the Gophers beat Big Ten co-champion Michigan State behind some clutch performances in overtime. And Saturday...
Michigan Basketball and the Big Ten Tournament: The (Hopefully) Long Goodbye
Every year when the Big Ten Tournament rolls around fans of middle tier teams, like the Michigan Wolverines, tend to think the impossible can happen. Phrases like "if we get a couple bounces", "if we can hit our open looks", "if the other team is suffering from Ebola" engender hope that should have...
Detour
The road to a Big Ten title now runs straight through West Lafeyette. Foolproof two-step plan for Michigan State to win at least a share of the Big Ten title: 1) Win at least 2 of 3 remaining home games. 2) Beat Purdue on the road. The first part of that plan looks quite a bit more plausible than...
The Big Ten Race in Tabular Form
Simplified View of the World The conference has now split pretty clearly into a top five (MSU, Ohio St., Purdue, Wisconsin, Illinois) and a bottom six (everybody else). The first group of teams consists of locks (or near-lock in the case of Illinois) for the NCAA Tournament. The other teams have...
Who's been dying to see those PORPAG numbers?
[This is not so much a real post as a blockquote/bulletpoint/numbers dump. This is what you get for showing an interest in my rigged-up statistical inventions. Appropriate given that SparanDan helped invent PORPAG.] Original post on Points Over Replacement Per Adjusted Game (PORPAG) is here. Big...
Your Big Ten Pre-Conference Season All-Conference Team*
*Yes, I know that sounds a lot like an oxymoron.I'm a couple days late on this, but long-time readers know how much I love putting together all-conference teams (in the tradition of the old All-Wonk Teams, which came in 1.0/2.0/3.0 versions). Separating out the top Big Ten performers through...
A Scatterplot-Based Big Ten Conference Season Preview
Scatterplot: Technical stuff: Offensive efficiency is points scored per 100 possessions. Defensive efficiency is points allowed per 100 possessions. I’m using Kenpom’s "adjusted" efficiency numbers, which account for the quality of a team’s opposition. (Big Ten data; I pulled...
Gopher Hoops 2009-10 - Expectations
I cannot remember a Gopher hoops season that has had Gopher Nation this excited or been filled with this kind of expectations.The team returns all significant contributors to last year's squad that notched a win over an eventual #1 seed, racked up 22 wins and earned an NCAA tournament invitation. ...
A premature (but not excessively premature) 2009-2010 Big Ten conference basketball preview
OR "How did I let all this football talk distract me from producing basketball scatter plots?" Now that I've thrown my blogging lot in with a couple football nuts, my old "basketball's WAY better than football, even in August" shtick probably doesn't work as well. Nevertheless, I feel compelled to...
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