Anyone Surprised By This Stat Graphic?

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One of the biggest indicators of someone's coaching ability and Xs and Os is their performance after timeouts, end of game, end of shot clock, baseline out of bounds, etc.

This graphic ranks teams based on their success in these scenarios.

Look who's at/near the top of the SEC rankings in this metric, and look who is (comfortably) at the bottom.

Either way, great to see! Been fun to watch.

 
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Most interesting to me is the across conference differences. I think this shows that some conferences let defenders defend more (aggressively) than others do.
 
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I think it might make more sense to me if it was printed in braille

Haha fair.

Each conference has it's own column, so you can see how you stack up in your conference, and how your conference overall stacks up against other leagues.

We were at the top of the SEC "column" (along with Auburn and Oklahoma) and Arkansas was in the basement.
 
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Funny thing is, in crunch time last night, Arkansas got a bucket off some nice action that essentially won them the game.

That's that broken clock type stuff though, we know that.
 
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A couple of random thoughts about this.

1. I’m not surprised at all about Arkansas and Kentucky. We all saw Cal struggle in these scenarios for years, and our team this year under Pope being much better at them matches the eye test.

2. You don’t have to like the guy (and I don’t, to be honest), but UConn being the best team in Division 1 in these scenarios if I’m reading this correctly would seem to at least somewhat validate Hurley’s opinion of himself.

3. Villanova ranking quite highly in this measure while being on their way to missing the tournament and putting Kyle Neptune out of a job says that maybe there’s limits to using this stat as a proxy for overall coaching ability.
 
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Zuma75

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A couple of random thoughts about this.

1. I’m not surprised at all about Arkansas and Kentucky. We all saw Cal struggle in these scenarios for years, and our team this year under Pope being much better at them matches the eye test.

2. You don’t have to like the guy (and I don’t, to be honest), but UConn being the best team in Division 1 in these scenarios if I’m reading this correctly would seem to at least somewhat validate Hurley’s opinion of himself.

3. Villanova ranking quite highly in this measure while being on their way to missing the tournament and putting Kyle Neptune out of a job says that maybe there’s limits to using this stat as a proxy for overall coaching ability.
Yeah, I mean no matter how good the coaching is, the players still have to go out and execute it. And success in execution depends partly on the quality of the players and partly on the quality of the opposition. So there's some other things that contribute. Don't know if this metric is adjusted for any of that. But definitely interesting!
 

Skyguyb27

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If we are all being honest, who here even knew we had special teams in basketball under Cal?
 
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I think it might make more sense to me if it was printed in braille
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Skyguyb27

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One of the biggest indicators of someone's coaching ability and Xs and Os is their performance after timeouts, end of game, end of shot clock, baseline out of bounds, etc.

This graphic ranks teams based on their success in these scenarios.

Look who's at/near the top of the SEC rankings in this metric, and look who is (comfortably) at the bottom.

Either way, great to see! Been fun to watch.


Bro you know that’s a special teams chart right? It says it at the top.
 
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Bro you know that’s a special teams chart right? It says it at the top.

What are you talking about?

Special Teams in basketball is what I described, and it also literally says it at the top of the chart- short clock, late clock, EOG (end of game), ATO (after timeout), OOB (Out of Bounds, usually baseline out of bounds).

This is literally a basketball chart, the Big East is on there [roll] GONZAGA is on here for Christ's sake.

It's from a Basketball Analytics twitter account...... JG Trends CBB Analytics Twitter Account

Maybe you're joking and it went over my head (which I sincerely hope) - also maybe @yabbadabbadoo and @LineSkiCat14 as well. Maybe I am just missing the joke.
 
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Trinity45

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One of the biggest indicators of someone's coaching ability and Xs and Os is their performance after timeouts, end of game, end of shot clock, baseline out of bounds, etc.

This graphic ranks teams based on their success in these scenarios.

Look who's at/near the top of the SEC rankings in this metric, and look who is (comfortably) at the bottom.

Either way, great to see! Been fun to watch.


When I comes to X's and O's Cal is at the bottom
 

*Fox2Monk*

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What are you talking about?

Special Teams in basketball is what I described, and it also literally says it at the top of the chart- short clock, late clock, EOG (end of game), ATO (after timeout), OOB (Out of Bounds, usually baseline out of bounds).

This is literally a basketball chart you bozo, the Big East is on there [roll] GONZAGA is on here for Christ's sake.

It's literally a Basketball Analytics twitter account...... JG Trends CBB Analytics Twitter Account

Maybe you're joking and it went over my head (which I sincerely hope) - also maybe @yabbadabbadoo and @LineSkiCat14 as well. Maybe I am just missing the joke.
Gonzaga is a football powerhouse.
 

Skyguyb27

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What are you talking about?

Special Teams in basketball is what I described, and it also literally says it at the top of the chart- short clock, late clock, EOG (end of game), ATO (after timeout), OOB (Out of Bounds, usually baseline out of bounds).

This is literally a basketball chart you bozo, the Big East is on there [roll] GONZAGA is on here for Christ's sake.

It's literally a Basketball Analytics twitter account...... JG Trends CBB Analytics Twitter Account

Maybe you're joking and it went over my head (which I sincerely hope) - also maybe @yabbadabbadoo and @LineSkiCat14 as well. Maybe I am just missing the joke.
Nope, I’m right. Just kidding. Apparently I’m a bozo today. Sorry. I think I’m spread to thin at Home.