Virginia was 4/21 from deep. Oh, what the heck, let’s just get all the bad news out at once. Virginia was 8/13 from what this ...
Stanford’s Ebuka Okorie came to the JPJ as one of the hottest players in the ACC, nay the nation. He led Stanford on a ...
Georgia Tech’s Talayah Walker was coming off back-to-back 30-point games in wins against Notre Dame and SMU. She got 21 points because she’s a great at the foul line (11/12 on the night) but the ...
Andy Hill has no trouble remembering, nearly a half-century later, when he first came to believe he might have conceived something worthwhile when he introduced the “Team Contribution Index” to ...
A common lament of fans of any sport is that box scores can only give you so much information. Some of the traditional box score information isn’t even very useful. In basketball, one of the canonical ...
The Golden State Warriors second-year guard tops all players in the NBA in plus/minus, a stat that measures how many points a team is better than their opponents while a player is on the floor.
The plus/minus rating is a useful statistic, but it is often overrated. A number of factors -- many of them out of a player's control -- affect a player's rating, which is why you can't take the ...