{"id":594,"date":"2007-03-22T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/a-couple-of-fun-notes\/"},"modified":"2007-03-22T05:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T11:00:01","slug":"a-couple-of-fun-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/a-couple-of-fun-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Couple of Fun Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

These aren’t going to change your life, but they are interesting nonetheless:<\/p>\n

– A tipster pointed out that the Texas A&M assist rate might be due in part to a friendly home scorer’s table (related article<\/a>). Actually, there’s amazing evidence to that effect. I just looked at the Big XII foes that A&M plays a home-and-home against to eliminate any effect an unbalanced schedule would have.<\/p>\n

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Assist Percentage (A\/FGM)<\/u><\/p>\n

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           Home   Road\nTexas A&M  75.6   33.1\nOpponents  54.1   57.1<\/pre>\n
Even though this only includes five games on each side of the ledger, it is pretty startling. A&M gets credited with double assists at Reed Arena.<\/p>\n
– In the first Ohio State\/Tennessee game, a 2-point Buckeye victory, the Buckeyes were outscored 8-0<\/a> with Greg Oden on the bench. I’m sure this was as much fluke as it was something real, but I doubt you’ll here about it anywhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These aren’t going to change your life, but they are interesting nonetheless: – A tipster pointed out that the Texas A&M assist rate might be due in part to a friendly home scorer’s table (related article). Actually, there’s amazing evidence to that effect. I just looked at the Big XII foes that A&M plays a […]<\/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\/594"}],"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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}