{"id":909,"date":"2004-09-09T01:08:46","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T07:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/rules-changes-revisited\/"},"modified":"2004-09-09T01:08:46","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T07:08:46","slug":"rules-changes-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/rules-changes-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules Changes Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t planning on continuing the <a href=\"http:\/\/kenpom.typepad.com\/ha\/rules_changes\/index.html\">discussion of college rules experiments<\/a> this soon, but there&#8217;s been some breaking news. Unbeknownst to me, the WNBA altered its three point line this year from 19-9 to 20-6, mimicking the college rules experiment. (Also unbeknownst to me, the WNBA season is actually in progress.)<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Pelton, who works for the Seattle NBA\/WNBA franchises, has posted the data on what has transpired in the WNBA this season. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnba.com\/storm\/news\/HollandCorn_Not_Only_2003_Sho-117183-221.html#threepoint\">Go ahead and read his piece on it<\/a>, I&#8217;ll wait.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA data tends to support the trends we saw in the NCAA exempt games last year. Scoring has decreased along with the pace of play. There are some differences &#8211; most notably 3 point accuracy somehow has improved at the longer distance, while the number of attempts has decreased more than it did for the college men. Scoring hasn&#8217;t dropped as much as it did in the NCAA, but keep in mind that the WNBA isn&#8217;t using the international style lane.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA changes provide further confirmation that moving the line back does not lead to a better brand of basketball. I think we can also conclude that widening the lane has an additional contribution to slowing down the game. I wonder if the NCAA rules committee is paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t planning on continuing the discussion of college rules experiments this soon, but there&#8217;s been some breaking news. Unbeknownst to me, the WNBA altered its three point line this year from 19-9 to 20-6, mimicking the college rules experiment. (Also unbeknownst to me, the WNBA season is actually in progress.) Kevin Pelton, who works [&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\/909"}],"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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}