Saturday, December 1, 2007

Marquette Vs. UWM Analysis

Well, thanks to this 100-65 Victory over UWM, it looks like the first analysis will be somewhat easy. Marquette pretty much was better at everything.

For the Traditional Box Score Stats, Marquette was better at:

  • FGM (40 vs. 22) ; and FGA (74 vs. 56)
  • 3FG (9 vs. 4)
  • Rebounding (Offensive, Defensive, and Total of 39 vs. 33)
  • Assists (26 vs. 10)
  • Turnovers (7 compared to 14)
  • Blocks (6 vs. 0)
  • Steals (8 vs. 3)

This was a beatdown. Good.


For the Ken Pomeroy Prospectus-Type Stats, it's a similar story:

  • Marquette had 82 possessions tonight (UWM - 77, Season Avg 70.6)
  • 1.22 Points / Possession (UWM - 0.85, Season Avg 1.13)

For Dean Oliver's Four Factors (eFG%, OR%, TO%, and FT Rate):
  • eFG% of 0.601 (UWM - 0.429, Season Avg 0.555)
  • OR% of 0.205 (UWM - 0.212, Season Avg 0.313)
  • TO% of 0.085 (UWM - 0.182, Season Avg 0.172)
  • FT Rate of 0.149 (UWM - 0.304, Season Avg 0.253)

UWM can take consolation of getting to the line and making shots, but Marquette's percentage was probably down because the effective FG% was so high.


Finally, on the Efficiency approach:

  • Marquette's Offensive Efficiency (Total Points / 100 Possessions) was 121.9* (UWM - 84.6 ; Season Average of 113.2)
  • The NBA Efficiency Rating was 130! (UWM - 51 ; Season Average of 71.3)
  • Using Efficiency Per Min we had a team average of 0.650** (UWM - 0.255 ; Season Average of 0.357)

There you have it. Let's see how things look for the next game. Frankly, a game that wasn't that close isn't that interesting to analyze for the stats. I'm sure that the Wisconsin game will give us more to talk about.


*Note that this is not the same as Dean Oliver's Offensive Rating that is used by folks like Pomeroy/etc.
**I made this stat up and I have no idea how valid it is. Frankly, I haven't wanted to take the time to understand Hollinger's PER rating yet. However, I like this stat because it also measures the impact of a stat-stuffer that collects blocks, steals, assists, etc.

[edit] - turns out I was calculating OR% incorrectly, so I deleted the comments that followed.

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