An advanced stats look at Badgers hoops after 11 games

Published Dec. 12, 2013 10:10 a.m. ET

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It has been a while, but not with Wisconsin sitting at 11-0 I thought it might be a good time to once again look at some advanced stats as it pertains to the Badgers.
Here's the key to the chart below:PPP = points per possession (by formula; I have not rounded up or down); OPP PPP = opponent points per possession; eFG% = effective field goal %; OR% = offensive rebounding percentage; DR% = defensive rebounding percentage; TO% = turnover percentage (per possession)
As you can see, other than a few early games, Wisconsin isn't really getting a lot of possessions, but the Badgers are making the most of them with a high efficiency (i.e. good points per possession). In fact, UW ranks 38th in the nation in PPP at 1.117. UW's defensive efficiency is just 61st in the nation, although a still at a very respectable 0.943 (for some context, last year UW was at 1.018 offensively and 0.877 defensively).
Wisconsin's effective FG% is up from last year - 53.7% this year compared to 48.6% in 2012-13 - which certainly has been a key factor to the hot start.
Meanwhile, turnovers, as usual, have been minimal. Wisconsin ranks ninth in the nation in turnover percentage at 13.5% (15.3% last season).
Low turnover, high effective shooting and making the most out of each possession. Not hard to see a formula for winning there.
If there's one bugaboo for the Badgers, it has been rebounding. While it has gotten better, Wisconsin still ranks 219th in offensive rebounding percentage - i.e. the number of rebounds off Wisconsin's missed shots it gets - at 27.6%.
However, the Badgers are 17th in the nation at defensive rebounding percentage at 77.6%, which kind of shockingly (based on a bigger team last year) is higher than its rate in 2012-13 of 76.4%.
Here's the game-by-game numbers:

GAME	POSSESSIONS	PPP	OPP PPP	eFG%	OR%	DR%	TO%
St. John's	64.25	1.339	1.138	56.4%	41.1%	57.1%	15.5%
Florida	60.65	0.972	0.882	53.1%	26.7%	79.3%	23.1%
UWGB	71.075	0.971	0.884	48.3%	17.1%	72.5%	14.1%
North Dakota	73.775	1.396	1.115	69.4%	27.5%	69.7%	12.2%
Bowling Green	68.35	1.287	0.975	66.7%	20.0%	73.7%	14.6%
Oral Roberts	61.55	1.235	1.066	53.5%	36.3%	85.7%	13.0%
Saint Louis	62.25	1.012	0.850	51.1%	19.4%	73.9%	14.5%
West Virginia	60.075	1.165	1.006	50.9%	29.0%	84.8%	11.7%
Virginia	56.5	0.850	0.655	33.7%	31.6%	77.8%	12.4%
Marquette	58.925	1.188	1.012	46.4%	36.7%	63.9%	10.2%
UW-Milwaukee	64.275	1.214	0.785	59.0%	29.0%	86.7%	12.4%