Implementing Hustle Stats
One of the modern visionaries of using Moneyball style analytics is coach Kyle Smith of Washington State. For many years, he has been using a weighted scoring system to motivate and track player performance. They call it “Hustle Stats”.
His system is very similar to what you can do with Hoopsalytics, but for a lot less money than the Division 1 schools like WSU pay for less capable tools.
And your implementation would include Video-linked stats in the custom box score, which it doesn’t look like even Coach Smith can do.
Here’s a snapshot of Coach Smith’s weighted scoring system:
And one implementation of custom weighted events in Hoopsalytics:
This article describes in more detail how Kyle Smith’s system works.
Compare to our previous post on implementing Custom Weighted Stats in Hoopsalytics.
Are you using a system like this? Or do you want to? If so, we’d love to hear from you.