I was watching the Kansas Baylor game tonight and they did a short in game segment on a grad student at Baylor who had worked with the coaching staff to do some lineup work for this matchup. His name is Ryan Resch and is a poli sci grad student. The report said that he used the five previous Baylor Kansas matchups to propose optimal lineups to be used. Just an interesting little tidbit they tossed in.
Hard to believe this guy won't be on an NBA team soon.
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Seems like very small sample sizes to use to garner meaningful info - especially since those last 5 match ups would span over 2 seasons with some different rotational players.cemitten wrote:I was watching the Kansas Baylor game tonight and they did a short in game segment on a grad student at Baylor who had worked with the coaching staff to do some lineup work for this matchup. His name is Ryan Resch and is a poli sci grad student. The report said that he used the five previous Baylor Kansas matchups to propose optimal lineups to be used. Just an interesting little tidbit they tossed in.
Hard to believe this guy won't be on an NBA team soon.
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As Dan said above, I don't know how much that would really help. A lot of teams (including us) use lineup combinations and look at our oppositions as well. The sample sizes aren't big for what we look at, but might provide some clarity on certain things (playing big/small, fast/slow, man/zone, etc.).
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Just telling you what the reporter said. I agree to an extent on the smaller sample and highly doubt all of the work was based on a 5 game sample. College, however, with its shorter season high turnover of players ,and less overall talent is necessarily dependent on short samples.
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Past team vs. team matchup data considered overall might reveal something about system vs. system and coaching rotation decision making beyond the small samples of specific lineups.
With same 4 teammates (or with 3 and against same 4 or 3) would offer other angles to check beyond the 5 or 5 vs. 5.
With same 4 teammates (or with 3 and against same 4 or 3) would offer other angles to check beyond the 5 or 5 vs. 5.
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Pretty much all college teams are using graduate assistant spots for some sort of analytics. I'm not sure how well these people are doing as a whole or if many teams listen to their "stats guy"