A few weeks ago, Spartans Weblog did a rather complete game by game graphical analysis, including trendlines of all the Big Ten schools efficiency numbers for the past season.
I decided to take a look at his Penn State numbers in a little more detail. First some background on the graphs:
Background info
First, some notes on [...]
According to his Philly Daily News column, Penn State color man Dick Jerardi is a fan of Ken Pomeroy and tempo free stats.
Dick Jerardi: Even the refs are monitored at this Web site | Philadelphia Daily News | 02/06/2008 via kwout
We are now halfway through conference play so it’s time to take another look at the key tempo free team statistics. I’ll run through many of the numbers and note any significant change for Penn State from the previous report that I published on January 15th.
Penn State remains 7th in the league in pace [...]
Because this is year long data, the numbers for Penn State don’t reflect the loss of Geary Claxton and thus the tool’s utility for this game can be questioned.
However, I’m still publishing it because the data is most certainly valid for other league games and people might want to make use of it.
Don’t know that there’s much to say here. Indiana has a solid lead in many of the categories. We do have a slight edge in offensive rebounding but with Claxton’s loss, who knows if we can sustain that. Turnovers are the one area where we look ok. We are better at [...]
While we are only four games into conference play, some trends are definitely beginning to emerge. Rather than go through each of the categories and list where Penn State stands, I’ll just comment on those categories where we stand out – good or bad.
In one of the more surprising stats to surface, PSU is [...]
We are just about the midpoint of the season (PSU has 15 games under their belt), so this is as good a time as any to review the tempo free stats for the B10 teams. Details are in the interactive chart above but here are the leaders along with Penn State’s spot in the rankings.
Pace
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Wisconsin pretty much owns the stats against us. We do have a better offensive rebounding percentage and we do turn the ball over less than they do. However, countering that, Wisconsin is a better defensive rebounding team and they force more turnovers than we do. We will likely have to win both [...]
Here’s my user visualization model of the B10 Tempo Free Stats as of today. I’ve preloaded the entry page with the efficiency margin numbers because I think they raise an interesting question.
Clearly, Minnesota has been playing well. Their efficiency numbers put them right up their in the elite of the Big Ten. [...]
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