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Friday Press Clippings:
The Tempo-Free Basketball Statistics

From Black Shoe Diaries
By Eric Gibson
Download source here: ' The Tempo-Free Basketball Statistics ' by Eric Gibson

"... Coach Chambers is trying to change the perception of Penn State basketball, so I'm going to take a stab at increasing the knowledge of Penn State basketball fans.

This will be BSD's introduction into tempo-free statistics for the game of basketball.

Hopefully some of you will have seen some of this lingo before around the interwebs and already understand it. ..."

"... Who are the masterminds? The pioneer of modern tempo-free analysis is Dean Oliver. He wrote Basketball On Paper in 2002 and proceeded to become the first person to land a full-time statistical analyst position in the NBA. ..."

"... What are Tempo-Free Stats? To be quite simple, they are what they say they are, free of tempo. The tempo of the game of basketball can obviously influence any of the traditional statistics like points, rebounds, and assists.

If there are more possessions in a game, there will be more shots (and misses), leading to more points, rebounds and assists, and so on. Quantifying the pace of a game allows us to proportion traditional statistics, so that they're fairly assessed across the board. ..."

"... Efficiency: This statistic is a true measure of a team's offensive and defensive ability. It is measured in two ways, although I just primarily use one. The method I like to reference is Points-Per-Possession, which as it says, takes points divided by a game's possessions.

A team's offensive/defensive 'rating' or 'efficiency' is the other measure which takes points scored per 100 possessions. Usually breaking even is the average mark for these two statistics. Anything under 1.00 or 100 is good defense/bad offense, and vice-versa. ..."

"... This is a very raw introduction to TFS (also known as APBRmetrics), but these are the most commonly cited statistics, while offering a good primer to grasp the basic concept.

You might come across different numbers for these statistics on other websites, but easily the go-to source for TFS is KenPom's site.

His numbers for some of these stats are going to be different than if you calculate them yourself with the equations I listed. ..."

"... TFS can also be applied individually to players. That would take another 1,000 words to explain, so you can just refer to KenPom as he explains all the wonderful stats he compiles on each team's page.

If you're really interested, just start browsing through his archives to see some of the crazy stuff he comes up with, like an automated scheduler that would raise interest in hoops at the beginning of the year or the minute-by-minute win probability graphs he tracks for every D-1 game. ..."

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' Perder para ganar ' by Jose A. Martínez.

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Friday Video Clippings:
SOMEWHERE

NOMINATED Surreal Animated Short By Liu Song: SOMEWHERE

A conceptual film.

Somewhere (2011) 03:16 | Animation - Surreal / Conceptual
Produced at Sheridan College (www.sheridancollege.ca)

CREDITS: Liu Song (Design, Modeling, Rigging, Lighting, Animation, Compositing)

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' Semilla del Recuerdo ' by Renato Roldán .

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