Category Archives: Summer Series ’15

Over the summer, I embarked on an exercise to determine how much control offense and defense had on various stats in a particular game. There were 14 posts in all, plus a bonus post on how one could misuse stats to show that the defense has control over free throw percentage. If you read all […]

This is part of a series of posts examining whether offense or defense has more control of various aspects of a typical college basketball game. The introduction is here. A description of the methodology is here. The thing the offense has the least control over is whether its 2-point shot is blocked. The offense has […]

This is part of a series of posts examining whether offense or defense has more control of various aspects of a typical college basketball game. The introduction is here. A description of the methodology is here. We’ve previously talked about non-steal turnovers in this series, in which the offense had 59% influence. Forcing steals is […]

This is part of a series of posts examining whether offense or defense has more control of various aspects of a typical college basketball game. The introduction is here. A description of the methodology is here. Thad Matta’s teams do a lot of things well but the thing his teams have done best is not […]

This is part of a series of posts examining whether offense or defense has more control of various aspects of a typical college basketball game. The introduction is here. A description of the methodology is here. In the last post, I looked at the “battlefield” of college basketball which was inside the 3-point arc. It’s […]

This is part of a series of posts examining whether offense or defense has more control of various aspects of a typical college basketball game. The introduction is here. A description of the methodology is here. Pat Benatar’s Love Is a Battlefield found itself in the top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100 in December of […]

This is part of a series of posts examining whether offense or defense has more control of various aspects of a typical college basketball game. The introduction is here. A description of the methodology is here. There are still statistics that have yet to be regularly cultivated from a basic stat sheet. Partitioning turnovers into […]

This is part of a series of posts examining whether offense or defense has more control of various aspects of a typical college basketball game. The introduction is here. A description of the methodology is here. So far in this series, we’ve focused on a specific stat in each entry, but today we’re talking about […]

This is part of a series of posts examining whether offense or defense has more control of various aspects of a typical college basketball game. The introduction is here. A description of the methodology is here. We always hear about how it’s desirable for the offense to share the ball. Although there are coaches like […]

This is part of a series of posts examining whether offense or defense has more control of various aspects of a typical college basketball game. The introduction is here. A description of the methodology is here. Today’s stat is three-point attempts, but it really could be “shot distribution”. As a team’s three-point attempt is also […]