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The 2010 Big Ten Football Outlook from 1,000 Feet
One of the reasons (although certainly not the only reason) that I spend a lot more time looking at basketball stats than football stats is that advanced basketball stats are so much more elegant.&nbs...
The Season in Review: Preventing Points Edition
If the story on offense was "failure to improve," the story on defense was "anticipated decline": table.tableizer-table {border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:...
The Season in Review: Scoring Points Edition
It's been over two weeks now since we last talked basketball. That's partly a function of the spring game, partly a function of The Great Jersey Fiasco of 2010 (as it will be referred to by hist...
The 2010 Big Ten Basketball Season in Groovy Chart Form
We had some fun with this a couple years ago, so I thought I'd take another crack at it. Bulleted explanation/caveats: The charts below show game-by-game offensive and defensive efficiency numb...
Your PORPAG-Based All-Big Ten Basketball Teams
Original post on Points Over Replacement Per Adjusted Game (PORPAG) is here. Mid-conference-season numbers are here. Big picture concept/caveats: As a refresher, this stat is an attempt ...
Don't read this post
Read the one below it. There's a technical glitch that won't allow me to add the here's-why-I-bumped-it paragraph. Here's that paragraph: [Bumped. Wow. FanPosters stepping up big tim...
Do Tom Izzo teams get better as the season goes on?
[Note: Post has been updated with TOC-produced scatterplots at the bottom.] The Duke Blue Devils tend to play less efficiently as the conference season goes on: The Michigan State Spartans perform p...
The most important statistic in basketball (and how it's killing us)
One of the great strengths of four-factors analysis is that it illustrates how important basketball skills other than shooting the ball are to playing successful basketball. Taken together, limi...
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 Spara...
The road ahead
With 29 of 99 regular season Big Ten games now in the books, the conference standings look downright smashing from a Spartan perspective: |------CONFERENCE-------| |--------OVERAL...
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