{"id":861,"date":"2005-01-07T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/total-rebounding\/"},"modified":"2005-01-07T02:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T08:13:00","slug":"total-rebounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/total-rebounding\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Rebounding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hello, Ken<\/p>\n

Thanks for your great work. I love the efficiency stats.<\/p>\n

A stat I would like to see kept somewhere is offensive rebounding percentage (plus defensive rebounding percentage = rebounding efficiency). As I’m sure you know, OR% = OR\/missed FGA. DR% = DR\/opponents’ missed FGA.<\/p>\n

Michael<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m going to use Michael’s idea with a few changes, defining offensive rebounding percentage as,<\/p>\n

OR% = your offensive rebounds \/ (your offensive rebounds + their defensive rebounds)<\/p>\n

and defensive rebounding percentage as,<\/p>\n

DR% = your defensive rebounds \/ (your defensive rebounds + their offensive rebounds)<\/p>\n

Then the two percentages can be summed to get Total Rebounding (TR). When TR is greater than 100, a team is better at getting rebounds than its opponents. TR is a much better way to measure rebounding ability than the NCAA’s stat of choice, average rebounding margin, because TR eliminates the effect of shooting percentage.<\/p>\n

If your opponent misses many more shots than you, you tend to get more rebounds because there are more opportunities for defensive rebounds, which are easier to get than offensive rebounds. I offered an example of this in a post last season<\/a>. TR is a true measure of a team’s ability to rebound the basketball relative to the competition they have faced.<\/p>\n

So check out the stats page<\/a> and see how your team stacks up in this category. <\/p>\n

As always, you can ratings@kenpom.com with suggestions for the next Stat O’ the Week or with questions like: What the hell are you talking about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, Ken Thanks for your great work. I love the efficiency stats. A stat I would like to see kept somewhere is offensive rebounding percentage (plus defensive rebounding percentage = rebounding efficiency). As I’m sure you know, OR% = OR\/missed FGA. DR% = DR\/opponents’ missed FGA. Michael I’m going to use Michael’s idea with 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\/861"}],"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=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}