Category: Stats
Controlling the pace of play can be key to winning more games. Some teams like to play fast, others like to play slow. And some games the desired pace of play depends upon your opponent. Hoopsalytics has a few handy metrics that can help you determine which players have the most control over the speed […]
If you are one of those diligent coaches who scouts opponents before big games, we have a few Hoopsalytics tools you can use to better prepare. First of all, teams using Hoopsalytics have a “Scouting” View in the Player Stats. We’ve collected the stats we find are the most useful for understanding your opponent. The […]
Do you have the best tools to make informed lineup decisions? Picking optimal lineups is critical to winning games, and being able to see how each lineup performed at different parts of the game can help you make the best possible substitution decisions. The Lineup Timelines in Hoopsalytics’ Game Summaries let you visualize shooting, turnovers, plus/minus and more […]
Every season there are games that result in blowouts, where the coaches empty their benches to finish out the game. These garbage time minutes are always present in traditional box scores, but with Hoopsalytics you can eliminate these garbage minutes and get a true indicator of how your players perform when the game is still […]
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 […]
With the wealth of basketball analytical information available in Hoopsalytics, some coaches are cautious about what to give their players access to. Hoopsalytics has a couple of ways to let coaches and administrators hide certain reports from players and parents, and also create stats views that only coaches can see. Here’s how this works: From […]
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, […]
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%) […]
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 […]
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 […]