What qualifies as advanced basketball analysis these days?
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:27 pm
Here is a quick attempted summary of the main known tools available and some other more speculative options:
Scouting
Player development (abilities, basketball skills, mental, team)
Player Box Score Based Stats
Player Box Score Based Stats (splits)
Video Based Stats
Video Based Qualitative Analysis
Video Based data mining on ball / player movement, athletic performance, etc. (the physics / geography of the game)
One Number Metrics (including raw and adjusted +/-)
Advanced Mathematical Metrics and Analysis
Lineup Analysis
MoneyBall
Play design
Play identification
Play performance analysis
Sub-lineup unit analysis
Player similarity and career curves
Player typology
Lineup typology
Player and team shot distribution optimization
Lineup matchup and full game simulation
Situation tendency analysis (own, opponent; player/coach/GM)
Strategic camouflage?
Leadership?
Personality typing
Clutch / crunch performance
Team Box Score Based Stats (simple aggregate)
Team Box Score Based Stats (simple splits)
Team Box Score Based Stats (“advanced”
Team Box Score Based Stats (“advanced” splits))
Coaching analysis (type, match and playoff performance, etc.)
How to effectively transfer analytic insights to other team personnel
Player “relations” / “manipulation”
Agent “relations” / “manipulation”
Deal negotiation with GMs
Team imaging with players, agents, other GMs
Owner strategy fulfillment, involvement, manipulation
Sports medicine, well-being, nutrition, day management, etc.
Referee analysis
Deconstruction of Home court advantage
Schedule analysis
Minute optimization performance / health analysis
Injury analysis
Global and historical; transaction analysis
Media relations and manipulation
Title team analysis (long-run, recent, last season, this season at all levels of analysis)
Title team development path analysis (including how to tank correctly)
Core of team / star analysis (duos, trios, quads)
Bench optimization (specialty skills and / or deliverable versatility)
CBA analysis & strategy optimization
In depth on Rebounding (positioning, availability checks / requirements put on shooters in different situations, technique, payoff /tradeoffs, etc.)
Turnover analysis
Optimal level of fouling overall and by situation
What am I missing?
Some of these might be a stretch but I went ahead and listed for any possible response commentary.
How many of these should be done or well done for a team to qualify as being "an advanced analysis team"? I dunno where exactly to draw the line but I’ll throw the simple starter notion that if a team isn’t doing half or more of these well that they are not that “advanced”, yet. I dunno how many teams qualify as pretty advanced right now. Maybe more than I’d guess, maybe less than I’d hope. Hard to say from the outside.
Scouting
Player development (abilities, basketball skills, mental, team)
Player Box Score Based Stats
Player Box Score Based Stats (splits)
Video Based Stats
Video Based Qualitative Analysis
Video Based data mining on ball / player movement, athletic performance, etc. (the physics / geography of the game)
One Number Metrics (including raw and adjusted +/-)
Advanced Mathematical Metrics and Analysis
Lineup Analysis
MoneyBall
Play design
Play identification
Play performance analysis
Sub-lineup unit analysis
Player similarity and career curves
Player typology
Lineup typology
Player and team shot distribution optimization
Lineup matchup and full game simulation
Situation tendency analysis (own, opponent; player/coach/GM)
Strategic camouflage?
Leadership?
Personality typing
Clutch / crunch performance
Team Box Score Based Stats (simple aggregate)
Team Box Score Based Stats (simple splits)
Team Box Score Based Stats (“advanced”
Team Box Score Based Stats (“advanced” splits))
Coaching analysis (type, match and playoff performance, etc.)
How to effectively transfer analytic insights to other team personnel
Player “relations” / “manipulation”
Agent “relations” / “manipulation”
Deal negotiation with GMs
Team imaging with players, agents, other GMs
Owner strategy fulfillment, involvement, manipulation
Sports medicine, well-being, nutrition, day management, etc.
Referee analysis
Deconstruction of Home court advantage
Schedule analysis
Minute optimization performance / health analysis
Injury analysis
Global and historical; transaction analysis
Media relations and manipulation
Title team analysis (long-run, recent, last season, this season at all levels of analysis)
Title team development path analysis (including how to tank correctly)
Core of team / star analysis (duos, trios, quads)
Bench optimization (specialty skills and / or deliverable versatility)
CBA analysis & strategy optimization
In depth on Rebounding (positioning, availability checks / requirements put on shooters in different situations, technique, payoff /tradeoffs, etc.)
Turnover analysis
Optimal level of fouling overall and by situation
What am I missing?
Some of these might be a stretch but I went ahead and listed for any possible response commentary.
How many of these should be done or well done for a team to qualify as being "an advanced analysis team"? I dunno where exactly to draw the line but I’ll throw the simple starter notion that if a team isn’t doing half or more of these well that they are not that “advanced”, yet. I dunno how many teams qualify as pretty advanced right now. Maybe more than I’d guess, maybe less than I’d hope. Hard to say from the outside.