Championship Game Shooting %'s

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Thought this was interesting considering we had some chatter on how the dome might be effecting shooting percentages, I still am in favor of getting rid of the dome atmosphere for your typical arena.

*%'s are for the championship game only.

2010:

Duke – Game: 44.2% Season: 44.1%

Butler – Game: 34.5% Season: 44.2%

2009:

Michigan State – Game: 40.0% Season: 45.1%

North Carolina – Game: 45.2% Season: 48.0%

2008:

Kansas – Game: 52.7% Season: 50.8%

Memphis – Game: 40.3% Season: 46.6%

2007:

Ohio State – Game: 46.9% Season: 47.2%

Florida – Game: 49.1% Season: 52.6%

2006:

Florida – Game: 44.8% Season: 50.0%

UCLA – Game: 36.1% Season: 47.3%

2005:

North Carolina – Game: 51.9% Season: 49.9%

Illinois – Game: 38.6% Season: 48.4%

2004:

Georgia Tech – Game: 38.0% Season: 46.5%

Connecticut – Game: 42.6% Season: 48.0%

2003:

Syracuse – Game: 47.6% Season: 47.5%

Kansas – Game: 43.7% Season: 49.4%
 
Given those stats I'd say playing in a dome has very little affect on shooting percentages.
 
colston15 said:
Given those stats I'd say playing in a dome has very little affect on shooting percentages.
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players and coaches will tell you different. those percentages say nothing about the types of shots taken so that doesn't deny the theory at all.
 
colston15 said:
Given those stats I'd say playing in a dome has very little affect on shooting percentages.
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That's what I got from them as well.

Shooting percentages are down slightly...
But the team you're playing against is probably playing the hardest defense you've seen all year.
 
coolm said:
players and coaches will tell you different. those percentages say nothing about the types of shots taken so that doesn't deny the theory at all.
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Like I said, the stats given, regardless of the shots taken, appear to show playing in a dome doesn't have a big affect on shooting.

Some of the teams even shot better in a dome.
 
and those wing shots faced against the deep background tend to mess people up shooting at LNC. Of course that helps us also since we're accustomed to it, but quite a few shooters dislike it.
 
If I did my math correctly.

Season average: 47.85
Game average: 43.51

Perhaps someone who pays more attention than me, might sift the teams that rely heavily on perimeter shooting and see the difference there.

Correlation does not prove or even imply causation, but the numbers certainly don't disprove Coolm's theory.
 
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Could it not also be Championship nerves.

I think you would need to compare the numbers by half. Is it nerves or background on one end.
 
Nooneb said:
Could it not also be Championship nerves.

I think you would need to compare the numbers by half. Is it nerves or background on one end.
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I don't think there is any way to truly isolate the causal factor. It would be more telling to take the last 8 or 10 games that were not played in an arena and see what the disparity was. 16 games is probably not close to being statistically significant as a sample, so I don't really see how the point can be proven one way or the other. It would be possible, albeit time-consuming, to determine how perimeter shooting correlates to shooting in the championship games. That would also lend accuracy.
 
but whenever they run those numbers they rarely disseminate between 3 pt shots that are actually affected and layups or midrange shots. Plus, if the player THINKS he is affected then he is affected.
 
JBaker said:
That's what I got from them as well.

Shooting percentages are down slightly...
But the team you're playing against is probably playing the hardest defense you've seen all year.
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Everyone seems to be ignoring this.
 
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