Sunday, January 15, 2023

Musing on Analytics

Where do wins and losses arise? The come from points. 

In basketball, teams must be good in:

  • Executing and defending in the half court
  • Defending in transition
  • Executing and defending the pick-and-roll
How best can we describe where points come and go? 
  • Service aces and errors
  • Successful attacks and errors 
  • Defensive errors 
As a mathematician, Coach Scott Celli has his system of evaluation. 

Others have tried to analyze points



All beg the question of where can a team earn more points or prevent losing points? For example: 

- Better serving (more aces or serves into freeballs, fewer service errors)
- Higher hitting efficiency (see definitions above) 
- Better blocking
- Fewer return errors
- Which players have more favorable statistics? 

At the highest levels, teams can organize their play against higher probability attacks. 













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