{"id":843,"date":"2005-02-04T04:19:01","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T10:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/assist-percentage\/"},"modified":"2005-02-04T04:19:01","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T10:19:01","slug":"assist-percentage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/assist-percentage\/","title":{"rendered":"Assist Percentage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After thinking &quot;outside the box&quot; for last week&#8217;s stat, I&#8217;m going to keep it basic this week and go with assist percentage, which is the percentage of field goals that are assisted on.<\/p>\n<p>A% = assists\/field goals made<\/p>\n<p>The results (see the <a href=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/stats.php\">stats page<\/a>) are a little surprising, given that &quot;sharing the basketball&quot; is always viewed as a good thing. With UNC (3rd) and Illinois (12th) near the top of A%, it&#8217;s easy to think that this stat is a key to success, and I&#8217;ve heard that a lot lately. But Duke (299th), Texas (295th), and Villanova (308th) are among the worst teams at assisting, and all three sport very efficient offenses.<\/p>\n<p>For the most part it appears that increased assist percentage correlates to a more efficient offense. But as is the case in college basketball, the exceptions are what spice things up. So I&#8217;d love to hear any possible explanations as to why a team can be very successful without a lot of helpers. <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also notice that the Basketball Shrink<sup><small>TM<\/small><\/sup> is available for your use. For those who missed <a href=\"http:\/\/kenpom.typepad.com\/ha\/2005\/02\/basketball_shri.html\">this post<\/a> from earlier in the week, Basketball Shrink<sup><small>TM<\/small><\/sup> is an affordable way for you to assess a team&#8217;s personality. By clicking on a team of your choice, you&#8217;ll get a listing of the most similar teams with respect to the three basic characteristics &#8211; tempo, offensive efficiency, and defensive efficiency, in the adjusted form of each stat.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, click on Princeton and you get Princeton offspring Air Force and Northwestern as the two teams most analogous to the Tigers, based on their play this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After thinking &quot;outside the box&quot; for last week&#8217;s stat, I&#8217;m going to keep it basic this week and go with assist percentage, which is the percentage of field goals that are assisted on. A% = assists\/field goals made The results (see the stats page) are a little surprising, given that &quot;sharing the basketball&quot; is always [&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\/843"}],"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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}