Jan 28, 2019
Eric Musselman, head coach at Nevada, joins for #18. Topics include: The use of stats by coaches long before the "analytics movement", communicating stats with players, the recent trend to more switching, Nevada basketball philosophy, and the impact of grad assistants.
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Jan 21, 2019
Bart Torvik, creator of barttorvik.com, joins for episode #17. We got geeky about using analytics to evaluate the impact of specific players (like Duke without Tre Jones) and to rank teams. We also discussed what Bart has learned in his attempt to reverse-engineer the NET rankings so far this season and ended...
Jan 14, 2019
Sam Vecenie, Senior Writer for The Athletic, joins for episode #16. Similar to episode #9, this episode is based around a draft. Sam and I drafted and discussed our top players in college basketball this season that are currently outside of Sam's top 100 NBA draft prospects.
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Jan 7, 2019
Neil Johnson, Sports Analytics Developer at ESPN, joins for episode #15. Neil has done a lot of work on using EYBL and other AAU stats to predict college performance. The episode revolves around that work, the traditional evaluation process, JUCO stats, and other basketball analytics and coaching topics.
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