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Tempo-Free Stats for Dummies - The Only Colors
Burnt Orange Nation —
Tempo-Free Stats for Dummies - The Only Colors
If you're a college hoops fan unfamiliar with temp free stats, do yourself a favor and take a few minutes to walk through this helpful primer from the outstanding Michigan State bloggers at The Only Colors, who blog ...
Signing Day Links
UM Hoops.com —
... Mike Rothstein is chatting hoops over at Ann Arbor.com at noon EST (right now). I’m looking to do a live chat coming up on here if that would be something people would be interested. Rothstein also chatted with Tim over at MGoBlog about the upcoming season.
In league rankings, power shifts to the Midwest
Andy Katz ranks the conferences, readers of this site probably won’t be surprised that the Big Ten comes in at #1.
Tempo-Free Stats for Dummies
If you are new around here, this is a must read. Tempo free stats are a ...
Around the SB Nation: Malzahn salivates at the prospect of facing Martinez
Rocky Top Talk —
... Dan Hawkins received a commitment from an outstanding QB prospect with an outstanding name, Munchie Legaux. [Ralphie Report]
It's that time of the week at OBNUG: anagram the opposing roster. The Idaho Vandals, featuring Vapid Stoners and Scenic Library.
Basketball
Arkansas Expats reacts to the announcement of the suspensions of Razorbacks basketballers.
Michigan State blog The Only Colors provides a primer on tempo-free basketball statistics.
A terrific Pac 10 hoops preview from UW Dawg ...
Tempo-Free Concepts Part Two: Usage, Efficiency, And A Word About Rebounding
Backing The Pack —
... four factors, but The Only Colors has already taken care of that with this handy primer. Instead, I'm going to talk more generally about some key concepts at the team and individual levels. ...
Double-T Nation Daily Diatribe :: 11.12.09
Double-T Nation —
... Explanation of Tempo-Free Stats: The Only Colors (SBN's Michigan St. blog) has an excellent explanation of tempo-free stats. ...
Assorted Links
Beyond the Box Score —
... Statistical analysis of basketball is called "tempo-free" statistics. Follow the link for a dummies guide and see ...
Tempo-free statistics are your friend
The Dagger —
... Turns out The Only Colors beat me to it, and their very simple, comprehensive explanation of tempo-free is much better than anything I would have done. Go read it, like, now. ...
Michigan Hoops Preview: Five Predictions
The Wolverine Blog —
... Michigan cracks the top 25 in tempo-free offense — I’m not going to delve too deep into tempo-free stats (check out The Only Colors’ explanation, which sums them up perfectly), but in essence they take a team’s pace out of the equation and measure how many points a team would score given the same amount of possessions per game as any other team. Last season, Michigan finished 44th in the country with 111.3 points/100 possessions. To crack last year’s top 25, they would only have to improve that number by three ...
Saturday Morning Astros, etc. Round Up
The Crawfish Boxes —
... Footer takes a pause from the discussion of pitching to ask the question: where will all the runs go? Her solution, of course, is to shore up pitching and defense. Not that it's a bad one, but it seems like there's just no way around us accepting anemic offense, which is scary considering I thought if our offense got more anemic, it'd be on life support....I guess it may well be.
For those multi-sport fans in the bunch, a primer, of sorts, on the sabermetric measures of basketball.
Two important things: First, a wOBA to WAR ...
Don’t Need A Slide Rule for Tempo-Free Stats
Kentucky Sports Radio —
... removes the pace of a team’s play. Teams that play at a fast pace often have skewed points-scored-per-game and points-allowed-per-game; measuring points-scored-per-possession (or per-100-possessions) allows all teams to be measured equally. Per-possession statistics also allows us to evaluate players by the minutes they played (and didn’t play) on the floor, which will definitely be used when I do my “Siva vs. Wall & Bledsoe” post in a month. TheOnlyColors.com has a fantastic “for dummies” breakdown of the major APBR (or Tempo-free) statistics. An early definer of APBR, ...
Game 3 Review: Another lop-sided win, at least on the scoreboard
From The Barn —
... A quick perusal of the box score may lead to some rebounding concerns too. Remember, don’t believe the box score. While we don’t delve into statistical intricacies too often, tempo-free statics are a very helpful tool to gain a complete picture of the game. KJ at “The Only Colors” was kind enough to put together a guide for numbers-oriented dummies such as myself. One of the main general concepts is that percentages are more meaningful than raw numbers. This is especially true when looking at the rebounding numbers from Thursday night. Even though the ...
