Category: Stats
You may have seen “Usage Rate” as one of the stats the NBA provides. It shows the overall impact of a player, i.e. how often a player contributes to the outcome of a play. Dominant players like Joel Embiid often have high Usage Rates. This article will explain what Usage Rate is, and how Hoopsalytics […]
Hoopsalytics makes it easy to create your own custom basketball stats and box score layouts. You can add and remove data, and also change the order in which stats appear. It’s easy to modify the existing Offense, Defense and Key Stats “views”, and create any number of new views. In the example below, I’ve created […]
A couple of our customers asked about tracking shots that resulted in a shooting foul. This is a part of Hoopsalytics now – both for measuring and in our shot charts. It should have been obvious to us on our initial design, but this is just one of the great ideas we’ve received from the […]
As we’re bringing aboard more college level programs, we often get asked about the advantages of Hoopsalytics over the Synergy stats they are usually required to acquire from their conference. This post will illustrate why you need Analytics – not just Stats – to improve your team’s chances of winning games. Plus Stats are the […]
How do you determine who is your best rebounder? It’s not just the total number of rebounds, or even the number of rebounds averaged over a full game. Other factors such as the shooting percentage of your team versus your opponents can overweight defensive or offensive rebounds. The best way to determine this is by […]
After interviewing a lot of basketball coaches, we’ve discovered quite a few who are using Excel or Google Sheets to track stats for their teams. Some of these are quite impressive in their scope and detail. However, given that the primary audience for these stats are youth players who have grown up in the age […]
While watching the Warriors @ Mavericks Game 3 of the WCF last night, two statistics jumped out at me. First, the Dallas Mavericks did not attempt a 2-point shot outside of the lane until the third quarter, and finished the game with only two mid-range attempts (0-2). This seems like a foolish strategy to me especially […]
Our Head Coach and Assistant Coach team at Hoopsalytics have been talking and Zoom’ing with coaches from all over the country and indeed, continent (shout-out to our Canadian friends and coaches), and we’ve been getting some excellent feedback and response. Here’s a sample of comments from our coaching community: “We want to track stats and […]
VPS is an acronym for the Value Point System, a statistic created to look at the efficiency of a player and to give a more well-rounded indication of overall player performance. A VPS of 1 is considered average, while a VPS of 2+ is excellent. The formula for VPS is as follows: Points+Rebounds+2x Assists+2x *Recoveries […]
In Hoopsalytics, as well as most any other box score stats, you’ll see a column labelled EFG% – Effective Field Goal percentage. This article explains that statistic in more detail. Here’s how EFG% is presented in Hoopsalytics: You can also see two-point makes and misses, three-point makes and misses, and percentages for two-point and three-point […]