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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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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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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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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.
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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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…
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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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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:
