{"id":360,"date":"2012-12-15T00:35:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T06:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/box-scores\/"},"modified":"2023-01-02T17:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T23:40:41","slug":"box-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/box-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Box scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Box scores have been added to the site. They are linked to the scores on each team\u2019s page. Let\u2019s get this out of the way first: They are only available for this season and will likely never be available for any previous seasons. If you\u2019re a seasoned user of advanced statistics, then the data doesn\u2019t need much explanation. For the rest of you, here goes\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The score at the top includes each team\u2019s ranking on the day of the game. It also includes the possession count in brackets.<\/p>\n<p>One difference between box scores here and box scores elsewhere is that two-point and three-point stats are separated. If we didn\u2019t have box scores and we were trying to make one today, we wouldn\u2019t have columns for all field goals and three-pointers. The same goes here for defensive and offensive rebounds. There\u2019s no total rebound column here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/box.php?g=458\"><img style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/assets\/box_example.png\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other addition here is (where play-by-play is available) a line score with score-by-quarter. I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s going to bring great analytical gain, but it\u2019s something different. Hey, if you always wanted to compute CBA-style standings for your conference, your dreams have come true.<\/p>\n<p>Offensive rating (ORtg) and usage rate (%Ps) are computed for each player that played at least ten minutes. In cases of fewer minutes played, the assumptions used to estimate these figures have a greater potential of breaking down and leading to non-sensical numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The red number below each of the team totals is its tempo-free counterpart. Hopefully it\u2019s intuitive what each of those figures means, but for clarity, here is a guide:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pts:<\/strong> Efficiency (Pts \/ possessions)<br \/>\n<strong>2PM-A:<\/strong> 2-pt field goal percentage<br \/>\n<strong>3PM-A:<\/strong> 3-pt field goal percentage<br \/>\n<strong>FTM-A:<\/strong> free throw percentage<br \/>\n<strong>OR:<\/strong> offensive rebounding percentage (OR \/ (OR + opponent\u2019s DR))<br \/>\n<strong>DR:<\/strong> defensive rebounding percentage (DR \/ (DR + opponent\u2019s OR))<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> assist percentage (A \/ FGM)<br \/>\n<strong>TO:<\/strong> turnover percentage (TO \/ possessions)<br \/>\n<strong>Blk:<\/strong> block percentage (Blk \/ opponent\u2019s 2PA)<br \/>\n<strong>Stl:<\/strong> steal percentage (Stl \/ possessions)<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, there\u2019s some win probability info included as well. A mini-graph in the upper right (where play-by-play is available) gives you a flavor of the competitiveness of the game. You can click it to get the larger version that was previously linked directly from scores on the team page. Under the winning team\u2019s portion of the box you can also learn their minimum chance of winning and when that occurred.<\/p>\n<p>You can click on the arena name to see an image of the building courtesy of Google Maps. In a few cases, this takes you to an unexpected location (usually a random field in Missouri) because the arena name is not geo-tagged properly in Google.<\/p>\n<p>I think that covers it for now. I\u2019ll eventually be building out the player pages with this information.<\/p>\n<p><em>[The image shown is the box for the Arkansas State\/Tennessee-Martin game from 11\/16 which featured a scoreless overtime period. How did I miss this?]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Box scores have been added to the site. They are linked to the scores on each team\u2019s page. Let\u2019s get this out of the way first: They are only available for this season and will likely never be available for any previous seasons. If you\u2019re a seasoned user of advanced statistics, then the data doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}