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Category: Analytics

  • Advanced Assist Tracking: Potential and ‘Other’ Assists

    Want to get better insights into who your shot creators are? Like the high level teams doing sophisticated game analysis using Hoopsalytics, you can track advanced assists for three different types: Traditional Assists (passes to a scoring player) Potential Assists (events which could have led to a score, but didn’t.) Other Assists (which lead to a score) Assists (or […]

  • Blk /Foul and Stl/Foul Advanced Metrics
    Measuring Defensive Efficiency with Blocks/Fouls and Steals/Fouls Stats

    Defense wins championships, and being better able to measure how effective each of your players are can help you reach that next level. Unlike other systems, Hoopsalytics differentiates between shooting fouls and non-shooting fouls, which allows us to create more advanced analytics. So with this capability, you can use two metrics that will give you […]

  • Why Watching Game Video Matters

    At this point of the season most teams are in their conference play. It’s been 10-12-14 weeks of basketball, and players are feeling the grind and attrition is always a concern. Maintaining routines like stretching and drill work help keep a rhythm and health benefit but there’s another way, perhaps under-rated, that can improve your […]

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    Measuring Basketball Shot Quality

    One of the complexities of being a basketball coach is measuring shot quality – getting my team to take “good” shots, and making the case against “bad” shots. Although “good” and “bad” are somewhat subjective, there are some shots that are obviously preferred over other shots. For example, layups are always preferred over contested three […]

  • Player Impact Analytics for Measuring Defense

    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 […]

  • Why Hoopsalytics is a better basketball platform than Hudl

    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 […]

  • For Hoopsalytics Self-Scoring, Here’s How to Fix Red Flags

    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. […]

  • Building an Analytical Profile

    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 […]

  • basketball stats using artificial intelligence
    AI Basketball Stats

    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, […]

  • What are Your Basketball “Four Factors”?

    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%) […]