{"id":851,"date":"2005-01-21T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/turnover-percentage\/"},"modified":"2005-01-21T02:00:01","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T08:00:01","slug":"turnover-percentage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/turnover-percentage\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnover Percentage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you noticed, there was a problem with the games database for most of the day yesterday. While I&#8217;d prefer the data I provide be absolutely correct, the snafu did allow me to realize the interesting cross section of people that check the site. I got e-mails from many fans, nearly-famous people, and a &quot;Damn, I can&#8217;t believe <em>that guy<\/em> has time to check the site. Let alone care about its accuracy.&quot; Thanks for keeping me in line. Surprisingly, there was not an f-bomb in the bunch. Give yourselves a round of applause.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/stats.php\">Stat o&#8217; the Week<\/a> is &quot;Turnover Percentage.&quot; Once again it&#8217;s a simple one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Turnovers \/ Possessions<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the percentage of offensive possessions that end in a turnover. I have this yet-to-be-confirmed theory that the offense owns the bulk of the responsibility in the turnover. To be overly simplistic, there are two ways a turnover occurs &#8211; a giveaway or a takeaway. In most games, it seems that the giveaways outnumber the takeaways. I don&#8217;t know what that ratio is, but I&#8217;d guess the offense is around 55-60% responsible for its ability to get a shot off.<\/p>\n<p>One thing to note about turnover percentage is that teams that don&#8217;t turn it over much tend to be slower paced. The Temple&#8217;s (#1 TO%), Illinois&#8217; (#2), and Air Force&#8217;s (#3) of the college basketball planet are willing to hold onto the ball longer to get the easiest shot possible because they know they <em>can<\/em> hold it longer. And this is reflected in their offensive efficiency (adjusted #65, #2, and #30, respectively). Butler, Drexel, Vermont, and IUPUI round out the top 7 in TO% and all have efficient, deliberate offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you noticed, there was a problem with the games database for most of the day yesterday. While I&#8217;d prefer the data I provide be absolutely correct, the snafu did allow me to realize the interesting cross section of people that check the site. I got e-mails from many fans, nearly-famous people, and [&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\/851"}],"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=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}