Trey Burke’s time in Ann Arbor is over and it won’t soon be forgotten. His impact as Michigan’s point guard was obvious. He dominated the ball, scored, created, and defended. Burke was the National Player of the Year because of his impressive statistics. He was a winner and carried Michigan to heights it hadn’t seen [...]
KJ put together a collection of slick charts at The Only Colors by plotting conference-only efficiency numbers by game and applying polynomial trendlines (order of 2, meaning they can only bend once). It’s worth checking out all of the charts to see how the other contenders have played throughout the season but here’s Michigan’s graph [...]
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The offseason is a wonderful time when Ken Pomeroy tweaks his website to implement new features, making the best college basketball statistical resource even better. Today he implemented similarity scores for every Division I player. You can find the data, by season, on each player’s individual page which is conveniently linked from the team pages. [...]
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Sports Illustrated’s Luke Winn brought some mainstream attention to John Pudner’s Value Add formula last week. The formula measures the precise offensive value added by any specific player – or more specifically the drop off involved in replacing one player with a generic ninth or tenth man off of the bench. (Detailed explanation here.) Baseball [...]
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Most teams are just four games into the Big Ten season but here are some random statistics that stand out for Michigan early on. Almost all of the team stats referenced in this post refer to conference-only numbers — even if it is a bit early. Rebounding: Michigan is rebounding 74.3% of its opponents missed [...]
