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Fun With Torvik: Disaster Factory Edition
Brian
December 29th, 2020 at 1:26 PM
The terrifying world of Torvik without preseason projections. You can drop the preseason projections out of Torvik by advancing the start date of your sample one day.
You should not do this, the stat persons say. Kenpom once asserted that his projections were more accurate if you left a little bit of preseason expectation in indefinitely, but people were very cross about this and the benefit was small so he didn t bother. We re not even to January, so the expectations carry an appropriately large amount of weight, especially because teams have played far fewer games than they usually do.
Basketbullets Is Hornographic
I Do Not Apologize For The Headline
I mean, just watch this:
Michigan scoring on 7(!) different Horns sets this season: pic.twitter.com/Vc0brIzDe8
See? (Here s a Horns explainer; the short version is these sets all begin with the power forward and center lined up with one at each corner of the free throw line or thereabouts.)
Throw a stick at College Basketball Strategy Twitter and there s a high likelihood you ll hit on a slick Juwan Howard set:
Juwan Howard Coaching Wrinkles:
Spain PnR
Another common set at the NBA Level. Looks very similar to standard top of key ballscreen action