Managing People – Roles and Permissions

When you create a program/account in Hoopsalytics, you are able to include other people in various roles to perform different functions and gain access to various parts of the system. This article details the specific roles and permissions available. People in your program can have one or more of the following roles: Admin Coach Player […] →Read more

Scoring Profiles: Custom Scoring Panels for Scouting, Scrimmages etc.

Our most active coaches have asked for a way to make it easy to score different types of basketball games or scenarios. For example, for some scrimmages you may just want to chart shots. Or when scouting an opponent and analyzing their game, you may just want to tag their offensive sets. The Scoring Profile […] →Read more

TS% and why it matters

True Shooting percentage (TS%) is an advanced statistic that measures a player’s efficiency at shooting the ball. It is intended to more accurately calculate a player’s shooting than field goal percentage, free throw percentage, and three-point field goal percentage taken individually. Two- and three-point field goals and free throws are all considered in its calculation, […] →Read more

A Beginners Guide to Analytics

Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world, yet many fans, some players and even coaches don’t know as much as they could about the details of the game. In the just concluded NBA Eastern Conference Playoff series, ESPN Analytics gave the Miami Heat a 3% chance of beating the Boston Celtics. […] →Read more

Summer Camps and Clinics

As summer camp and basketball clinic season begins, players are looking to work on the individual and team skills that will elevate their game. If you’re not getting better over the summer, the competition is sprinting past you. It is advisable to absorb instruction and play with a purpose. By challenging yourself to figure out […] →Read more

European Basketball Analytics – Case Study

Coach Bill with the SC Vasco de Gama coaching staff

While traveling in Portugal, I was afforded the pleasure of meeting one of our European clients in Porto: SC Vasco de Gama. Nuno Martinez coaches the U18 club team, and he was gracious enough to spend some time with me talking about how they use the analytics Hoopsalytics provides, and letting me watch a practice. […] →Read more

HUDL Assist Alternative for Basketball

Many of the basketball coaches we talk to aren’t satisfied with HUDL Assist, and are looking for an alternative. If you’re one of those coaches, we invite you to learn more about Hoopsalytics. In short, Hoopsalytics is a more affordable, more powerful, and easier-to-use system. Update May 2025: Check out a full feature-by-feature comparison chart […] →Read more

Small Advantage Big Advantage

Multiple-game statistics tell a more complete story of how players are performing. Defenses vary, match-ups change, but by the third game of scoring your team and from then on, patterns, truths and teaching points are revealed. The Small Advantage / Big Advantage (SABA) idea is based on using an offensive action to create a small […] →Read more

A Better Basketball Playbook – Linked to Your Game Video!

Playbook sample from a high school team

If you watch a lot of basketball game video like we do, you always see things you’d like to remember or share. It could be your team executing one of your inbounds plays really well, an opponent doing something you’d like to steal, or maybe even a YouTube video, Twitter post, or a FastDraw play […] →Read more

All About the Basketball Usage Rate

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 […] →Read more