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
If you’re not looking at how an individual player affects TEAM stats, you’re missing out on some valuable information to make the best informed coaching decisions. Hoopsalytics’ Player Impact reporting now offers more data related to how each player affects overall team defense. New are Defensive Turnover %, Defensive 2 Pt %, and Defensive 3 […] →Read more
If you’re looking to get an edge this season using high-level stats and analytics, you’re probably looking at Hudl Assist or Hoopsalytics. Hudl Assist or Hudl Instat are $900 to $1500 or more. They also tack on extra charges for things like video storage, and faster turnaround times. This is for a basic stats package. Hoopsalytics is […] →Read more
Many of our coaches will add details to their game stats, like labelling inbounds plays, adding details to shots, or inserting actions to be tracked. This post illustrates how this is done. First of all, go to your games page, find the game to modify, then click More -> Add Scoring Detail (2nd pass). As […] →Read more
The Hoopsalytics basketball platform We-Score option has been an undoubtable success. We have a professional scorekeeping team based mostly in the Philippines and their experience and training is evident in the finished product of our scored games and the excellent reviews from our coaches and customers. Plus, with the overseas time off-set, we guarantee 12-hr. […] →Read more
Basketball is a global game that incorporates terminology and actions from around the world, from Spain to the Carolina Break to Chicago. The one common denominator is the math. Coach Bill and I like to point out that statistics and analytics are the unbiased assistant coach. Using the Hoopsalytics platform, a high school or college […] →Read more
As the world shifts toward more and more A.I. generated content, Hoopsalytics remains a human-scored basketball stats and analytics platform. That’s not because we are against emerging technology, far from it. But the fact is A.I. is not quite ready to accurately tag all basketball scoring. There are a number of reasons for this. Sometimes, […] →Read more
The start of the basketball analytics revolution was triggered about 20 years ago by Dean Oliver’s book Basketball on Paper, where he analyzed thousands of games and came up with these metrics to predict win/loss success, along with their importance: Effective FG % (Shooting) (40%) Turnover Pct. (25%) Rebounding rate (20%) Free Throw Factor (15%) […] →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