Basketball Analytics, Coaching Tips and Innovative Hacks
If you are at least five games into your season, you have a great opportunity to really determine who your most productive players are using the Hoopsalytics Player Impact analysis tool. Rather than showing individual stats, Player Impact shows team stats when a player is on the floor. This will show your coaching staff who […] →Read more
As a coach, I’m always trying to determine which plays and sets are working, and how to place my players in sets and actions that are best suited for their skills. Many coaches rely on the “eye test”, or assumptions about a player’s ability, but having analytics to back up or challenge your perceptions of […] →Read more
Most successful basketball coaches have a “secret sauce” – things they emphasize during practices and games. These actions typically are not tracked by traditional stats packages or services. Actions can be offensive actions like post entries or paint touches, or defensive actions like double teams or traps. With Hoopsalytics, you can track these events, and […] →Read more
High-achieving basketball coaches set goals for their team for each game. This allows players to focus on the important parts of the team’s system, and also enforces accountability for the entire team. Hoopsalytics makes it easy to set custom goals, and easily visualize how teams met or failed to meet expectations. Every coach emphasizes different […] →Read more
Hoopsalytics has come a long way in a short amount of time compared to our competitors. What took almost 20 years for others to build, Hoopsalytics has done in five very productive years. Our own experience as basketball coaches has fueled the growth, but much of the development has been inspired from the input of […] →Read more
As we talk with more and more coaches and players, we’re gaining even greater insights into what the Hoopsalytics platform offers to both team analytics and individual player analytics. For example, an AAU coach that I spoke with recently, old-school, asked how does he apply analytics to coaching his summer team. I asked him, “What […] →Read more
One of the best ways to motivate basketball players is to illustrate how they are improving. With the Hoopsalytics Trends tool, you are able to show progress in a variety of statistical areas from game to game. The graph above shows how one of our players improved his three-point shooting over the course of the […] →Read more
Basketball is a game of runs, and as a coach it’s helpful to know what went right/wrong during your last game when there was a run. The Game Summary tool in Hoopsalytics can give you valuable insights. As an example, we’re going to look at a game between UConn and St. Johns from 2024. UConn […] →Read more
Beside individual teams, Hoopsalytics has been providing top-level stats and analytics to various multi-team leagues. And if you’re running a league, your participants will love to have leaderboards showing which players excel in points, assists, rebounds and other categories. Leaderboards can be accessed by anyone with a login to the league Hoopsalytics account, or by […] →Read more
One of the coolest things about basketball and analytics is how different people can contribute, even in ways that defy common sense. Here’s a recent example from my AAU club team. Remy is second-to-last in points scored, last in assists, yet our team is the most productive offensively when he’s on the floor. The above […] →Read more
Every spring in the USA, the most motivated players (and families) participate in AAU Club teams. Many of these players have ambitions to play beyond high school, and having the best video-linked stats and analytics is a great way to improve, as well as share with scouts and coaches. And you can easily make highlight […] →Read more
On Saturday, February 3, 2024, the St. John’s MBB team had #1 UConn right where they wanted: up a point with 13 minutes left in the game, on their home away from home court, Madison Square Garden. The Garden crowd was rocking like it was 1985, when the Big East ruled supreme. But what happened? […] →Read more