The early story of the season has been the scoring has dropped 7.8% (through Dec. 1) and returned to levels seen before rule changes were instituted for the 2013-14 season. The block/charge call has been blamed, but the difference is deeper than just one change. All data points below compare […]
Though very early in the season, KPI Rankings for men’s basketball are now posted. Conference data through the first ten days of the season is also live. The early story of the season has been the scoring has dropped 7.4% and returned to levels seen before rule changes were instituted […]
As a project for Seth Davis and Sports Illustrated, I compared all men’s basketball exhibition games played by teams from the Atlantic 10 and ACC in 2013-14 (28 games) and 2014-15 (30 games). The sample size is admittedly small. Better data could have been gathered had more (or all) conferences […]
Through the first three days of last season, scoring had risen 4.5 PPG and 6.6% from the previous year. This year? A different story. Scoring is down 5.5% and back closer to levels seen before the highly publicized rule changes in 2013-14. Fewer fouls have been called, and fewer free […]