wyoav211933
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Due to the big break between games, I was looking at our team through advanced stats. Here are some tidbits
-Offensively, we are 26th in the nation in points per game. If we finish the year there, that would be a higher rank than many great Cowboy teams of the past, including the Davis/Bailey teams, the Dembo/Leckner teams, and the Bradley/Garnett teams (and miles ahead of the offensively challanged Nance/Adams teams.) Unfornately we are 249th in points allowed per game.
-Advanced stats love Marcus Williams and really, really love Kenny Foster. Both have very high win shares/40 minutes right now. I mean higher than any season Larry Nance or Marcus Bailey had in Laramie, and about on par with Josh Davis (I don't have win share data prior to 2000). Foster currently leads Williams, and while I suspect Foster will eventually drop below Williams, I think both stand a chance of finishing ahead of the alums I mentioned.
-Advanced stats hate Hunter Thompson. Among regular rotation guys, Thompson has very poor win shares/40 minutes and player efficiency rating. He is ahead of only DuSell and Oden. Eoin Nelson is very very close to catching him.
-I knew our Defense was bad, but I was stunned at how bad. Defensive ratings across the team this year are very similar to the 09-10 Heath Schroyer team that finished 10-21. Also, we don't have a single player on the roster who is better than the average college basketball starter on defense per Defensive BPM. Oden and Williams are just barely under. Unlike Offensive BPM and Total BPM which are actually well respected stats, Defensive BPM sometimes has the reputation of making players look worse on defense than they actually are, but having watched this team play also I don't think it exagerates.
-Because of the drag on defense, we only have 3 players who are higher than the average college basketball started per total BPM: Williams, Foster, and...Drake Jeffries! By total BPM all 3 are in the good starter category, in offensive BPM all three are in the borderline all-conference category.
-Offensively, we are 26th in the nation in points per game. If we finish the year there, that would be a higher rank than many great Cowboy teams of the past, including the Davis/Bailey teams, the Dembo/Leckner teams, and the Bradley/Garnett teams (and miles ahead of the offensively challanged Nance/Adams teams.) Unfornately we are 249th in points allowed per game.
-Advanced stats love Marcus Williams and really, really love Kenny Foster. Both have very high win shares/40 minutes right now. I mean higher than any season Larry Nance or Marcus Bailey had in Laramie, and about on par with Josh Davis (I don't have win share data prior to 2000). Foster currently leads Williams, and while I suspect Foster will eventually drop below Williams, I think both stand a chance of finishing ahead of the alums I mentioned.
-Advanced stats hate Hunter Thompson. Among regular rotation guys, Thompson has very poor win shares/40 minutes and player efficiency rating. He is ahead of only DuSell and Oden. Eoin Nelson is very very close to catching him.
-I knew our Defense was bad, but I was stunned at how bad. Defensive ratings across the team this year are very similar to the 09-10 Heath Schroyer team that finished 10-21. Also, we don't have a single player on the roster who is better than the average college basketball starter on defense per Defensive BPM. Oden and Williams are just barely under. Unlike Offensive BPM and Total BPM which are actually well respected stats, Defensive BPM sometimes has the reputation of making players look worse on defense than they actually are, but having watched this team play also I don't think it exagerates.
-Because of the drag on defense, we only have 3 players who are higher than the average college basketball started per total BPM: Williams, Foster, and...Drake Jeffries! By total BPM all 3 are in the good starter category, in offensive BPM all three are in the borderline all-conference category.