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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...

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" e...

Tempo-Free Overanalysis: The Sequel

Last night, I overanalyzed MSU's individual tempo-free numbers.  Tonight, I'll overanalyze the team-level numbers.  (The tempo-free primer is here, in case you missed it.) On Offense The tea...

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Why is it the most wonderful time of the year? Well, among other reasons, because individual tempo-free numbers are up at KenPom! It's obviously still very early--with just 400 minutes of basketball...


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