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25 Mar 2024
The field for the NCAA hockey tournament was announced on Sunday and it was totally determined by a rating system. Amazing concept! And sad that basketball refuses to consider it. startribune.com/ncaa-mens-ho…
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7 Dec 2025
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29 Aug 2024
John just calls it a blog, but the kids need to know that 20 years ago he spawned a whole generation of smarter Big Ten fans (which years later, continues to fuel my subscription numbers). Amazing times. bigtenwonk.blogspot.com/
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11 Jul 2024
Here is @hoopvision68 (5 YEARS AGO) arguing to use WAB over quadrants. If you want to understand WAB, this is a good place to start.
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11 Jul 2024
Can somebody smarter than me break down what this means for the 2024-25 NCAA Tournament? (Yes I already read all the replies and the quote tweets).
- How does Bart T calculate his rankings?
- How is he different from Kenny P?
- How is wins above bubble calculated?
Cheers.
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26 Jun 2024
Congrats to Jordan who is one of most responsible and entertaining users of analytics in the field. Well deserved and a great add for Jans.
25 Jun 2024
Mississippi State's Chris Jans is hiring Hoop Vision's Jordan Sperber to his staff, source told @TheFieldOf68.
Sperber worked for Jans for one season at New Mexico State as video coordinator.
Sperber has done an incredible job with Hoop Vision since starting it a handful of years ago, putting out terrific content and also consulting with college and NBA teams.
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22 Jun 2024
Great piece in today's @washingtonpost on the exceptional heatwave sweeping the world this month.
This is just a taste of what will become a regular occurrence if we do not urgently reduce our emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases: washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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20 Jun 2024
In '92, 5-9 Iowa State got in. There is some nostalgic idea that only the best P6 teams used to get in. But it's not true. Mediocre P6 teams got in, there were just fewer of them available so plenty of room for the best MM at-larges. That is no longer the case. Need to expand.
20 Jun 2024
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A look at 1991 for example. 56 power conference teams. 30 got in the field. Three with below-.500 records. By comparison, I believe there were 79 power conference teams of which 35 made the field and two were sub-.500.
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20 Jun 2024
Access has improved for P5 teams as a whole because there are more of them. Creighton, Butler, Houston, BYU are now P5. It hasn't changed for individual teams.
16-12 Kentucky made the '85 tourney. 18-13 (6-8) Maryland was a 5-seed(!) in 86. 17-12 (6-8) Maryland was a 7 in '88
20 Jun 2024
The heart of the issue is "access" for high-major programs, which is also misleading. Between conference expansion, reduction of non-con road games and metrics working in their favor, it's just as inclusive now for power-conf teams as it's ever been. I think Ken would agree.
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20 Jun 2024
What's changed is there's less access for MM at-larges. Expanding the tourney helps with that. Anti-expansion = anti-Robbie Avila.
(On a percentage basis, I'd bet that fewer sub-.500 P5 teams get in now than in the 80s but one of you nerds should graph it up and report back.)
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20 Jun 2024
In 1985, 64 (22.8%) of 280 teams made the tourney. In 2024, 68 (19.4%) of 351 teams made it. The tournament is more exclusive than it's been since 1984.
Nothing's going to lose meaning by adding a few teams.
20 Jun 2024
We are getting to a point where making the tournament has no meaning to it. Also destroys other tournaments relevancy.
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20 Jun 2024
RIP my mentions, but 76 teams is totally responsible expansion and I don't understand why people are so hostile to it. It would have been cool to have had Indiana State in last season's tourney. So what if it comes with St. John's and Oklahoma joining them.
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16 Jun 2024
Hole average is cool but hole variance tells you where a golf tournament has the best chance of being won or lost. 8/9/10 has been serving up a variety of outcomes all week at No. 2.
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6 Jun 2024
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24 May 2024
Ooh. Good stuff.
24 May 2024
I only have full pbp across the last 3 seasons, so I won't pretend that a larger sample size wouldn't help more.
But while not as extreme as the NBA, does seem to be a dip once you get under 5 seconds
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24 May 2024
Feels like this would be a flat line in college. Somebody prove me wrong.
24 May 2024
When do teams start intentionally missing a free throw when trailing by two late in the game?
It looks like it starts around the 5 second mark.
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12 May 2024
On endgame strategy in the NBA, informed by 27 years of play by play data.
When trailing late in the game, do teams win more often when attempting 2s or 3s?
When trailing by 3 late in the game, teams that attempt 3s have a demonstrably higher win percentage:
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12 Apr 2024
Incredible work by Kevin, who beat out 588 others that filled out a full ballot. Y'all should pay attention to his 1-363 ranking next October.
We'll have a more formal announcement and full analysis on the substack next week.
12 Apr 2024
In what has to be the proudest honor of my career, I believe I have won KenPom’s “H.U.M.A.N. Poll”.
Turns out I actually am pretty good at ranking every team in college basketball!
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