There are different ways to look at a basketball box score depending on your preference for a lot or as little information as you want to glean.
Being someone who loves stats, well, I'm all for learning as much as I can.
So I'm trying something a little different. Curious your feedback on it, so please let me know via the comments below, on Twitter or send me an email.
I'm not sure how much you can really tell after two games, so to start with I thought I'd just look at the individual games - against St. John's and Florida. Both wins, but statistically pretty much polar opposites for the most part.
St. John'sWisconsin scored 1.34 points per possession (pretty phenomenal), but St. John's was at 1.13 PPP (not a good defensive effort).
Wisconsin's effective field-goal percentage (which weighs in made 3-pointers more heavily as you get one more point than a "normal" basket) was 56.4%.
UW's offensive rebounding percentage (percent of rebounds on its shots it grabbed): 41.1%
UW's defensive rebounding percentage (percent of rebounds on St. John's shots it grabbed): 57.1%
UW's turnover percentage (number of turnovers per 100 possessions): 15.5%.
FloridaWisconsin scored 0.972 PPP (below average) but allowed Florida just 0.882 PPP (really good). By formula, Florida had only 60.075 possessions, which I'd guess will be its lowest output of the season when all is said and done.
UW's effective field-goal percentage: 53.1%.
UW's offensive rebounding percentage: 26.7%.
UW's defensive rebounding percentage: 79.3%.
UW's turnover percentage: 23.1% (woah).
Again, right now, I'm not sure what we can tell of this small sample size - other than Wisconsin is shooting the ball well and the turnover rate needs go down.
If there's interest (and/or I retain interest), I'll pop up sporadically with more statistical looks at individual games and eventually for the season.
