Flex-ibility
by Ken Pomeroy on Tuesday, December 28, 2004
I'd like to start today by giving credit to the Longwood Lancers. Coach Mike Gillian (friend of this blog) certainly got some mileage out of the game against the nation's #1 with a pregame feature on espn.com and an appearance on Cold Pizza. Then the 1-12 Lancers did something that neither Wake Forest nor Gonzaga could do - play a reasonably competitive game against Illinois for 30 minutes, eventually losing 105-79. Priceless trivia tidbit: Longwood and Delaware State are the only teams to shoot better than 50% against Illinois so far. That's the same Delaware State squad that missed its first 16 shots against Northwestern last night, in a 50-43 loss.
I promised some comments on the national efficiency stats I posted yesterday. One thing that jumped out at me involves the participants in the big game tonight, the aforementioned Gonzaga at Oklahoma State (correction: game is…
[Be advised, I wrote this a long time ago. -kp] Here's a page where I have computed efficiency stats for the 330 D1 teams. It's kind of bulky and awkward, but I think it does give some unique insight into a few teams out there. The columns are sortable nationally. You can sort the adjusted numbers by conference using the T/O/D selector next to the 'Conf' heading. Unlike the ratings page, this won't be updated daily in the foreseeable future. It will probably be a weekly update until I streamline the process. I'm also thinking of displaying a different "bonus stat" every week. Any feedback you have would be great, so .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
National Efficiency
by Ken Pomeroy on Monday, December 27, 2004
http://www.kenpom.com/stats.php http://kenpom.com/summary.php