chuckb
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I've been curious about the team's defense and I wanted to break apart some data and see what, if anything, we could glean from it. So I started with last Saturday's K-State game and I've gone through each possession to determine how the defense performed with each player in the game. It's important to say up front that:
1. This is the results from 1 game only and not too much should be read into it.
2. When the team gave up more points per possession with a player in the game that does not necessarily mean that he is the worst defensive player on the team or even that the team performed worse on defense with him in the game. It's entirely possible that the other team had its better offensive players in the game when we had that particular player on defense or maybe the other team simply hit all its shots. It could totally be attributable to luck or the skill of the other team.
I hope to look at this data for each game and then cumulatively, however, to see if we can see any patterns. Thomas had the highest defensive pts. per possession in the KSU game. In 1 game, it means nothing. If it occurs every game, it might.
Here are the results from the KSU game:
Player Pts. Possessions Pts./Poss.
Spangler 62 66 .939
Woodard 59 60 .983
Cousins 60 63 .952
Hield 64 68 .941
Thomas 63 61 1.033
Lattin 7 17 .412
Walker 13 23 .565
Caution: At first glance this appears to indicate that Lattin and Walker are tremendous defensive players. DO NOT ASSUME THAT. It could be true but you cannot tell that from this data alone. They didn't play that many minutes and KSU had a scoring drought where they scored 1 point in 4 minutes or something in the 2nd half with them in the game. It could entirely be a coincidence.
Anyway, I hope to go through the WVU game this weekend and add those numbers and then hopefully the OSU game Sunday so that we can determine if there are any patterns. I apologize for the formatting of the table. I suck at stuff like that.
1. This is the results from 1 game only and not too much should be read into it.
2. When the team gave up more points per possession with a player in the game that does not necessarily mean that he is the worst defensive player on the team or even that the team performed worse on defense with him in the game. It's entirely possible that the other team had its better offensive players in the game when we had that particular player on defense or maybe the other team simply hit all its shots. It could totally be attributable to luck or the skill of the other team.
I hope to look at this data for each game and then cumulatively, however, to see if we can see any patterns. Thomas had the highest defensive pts. per possession in the KSU game. In 1 game, it means nothing. If it occurs every game, it might.
Here are the results from the KSU game:
Player Pts. Possessions Pts./Poss.
Spangler 62 66 .939
Woodard 59 60 .983
Cousins 60 63 .952
Hield 64 68 .941
Thomas 63 61 1.033
Lattin 7 17 .412
Walker 13 23 .565
Caution: At first glance this appears to indicate that Lattin and Walker are tremendous defensive players. DO NOT ASSUME THAT. It could be true but you cannot tell that from this data alone. They didn't play that many minutes and KSU had a scoring drought where they scored 1 point in 4 minutes or something in the 2nd half with them in the game. It could entirely be a coincidence.
Anyway, I hope to go through the WVU game this weekend and add those numbers and then hopefully the OSU game Sunday so that we can determine if there are any patterns. I apologize for the formatting of the table. I suck at stuff like that.
