Her Hoop Stats

[JavaMan]

Her Hoop Stats aims to provide consistent, reliable, and easy to access data about women's basketball for both mobile and desktop environments.

The idea for the site evolved from a call that founder Aaron Barzilai, former Director of Basketball Analytics for the Philadelphia 76ers, received from his friend Alex Varlan when he joined the staff at Tennessee. Alex asked Aaron if he knew of any good options for statistics the team could use. After concluding that there weren't any he could recommend, Aaron decided to create one.

With the skills of Savvas Tjortjoglou and Neil Seas and support and input from many in the Women's Basketball community, they set out to build what has become Her Hoop Stats. Our goal is to help grow the women's game by providing effective new tools to better understand it.

Her Hoop Stats is just at the beginning of its journey. We're continuously working to add features and improve existing tools. If you have any suggestions, questions, comments, or other feedback, we'd love to hear from you. Follow @herhoopstats on Facebook, @herhoopstats on Twitter, or email Aaron directly at aaronbarzilai@herhoopstats.com.

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[bags27]

Hmmm... left side is subjective: top teams by AP Poll is a vote (by humans). Right side is "objective": top player by machines: simple scoring average. Another case in which statistics are misleading.

 

[UcMiami]

Hmmm... left side is subjective: top teams by AP Poll is a vote (by humans). Right side is "objective": top player by machines: simple scoring average. Another case in which statistics are misleading.

If you go to the 'leaderboard' tab you can see the full range of statistics they are compiling for players and teams. With any stats they are only as good as the 'competition comparison' can make them - in a universe with 350 teams all playing around 29 games a year, competition comparison is very poor. As we are all aware, the progression through the in conference schedule begins to balance out some of the gross discrepancies of the OOC , but obviously not all.

This is one of the issues Sue Bird was talking about in terms of the lack of more advanced stats for women's sports making it harder for people to have in depth discussions about players and teams the way they do with the men's sports.

 

[SVCBeercats]

JavaMan! You are the BEST!!!! Thank you!!!

 

[UcMiami]

Just a thought as well ....
For those who can afford the $20 yearly subscription, it is a good idea to support sites like this so that we can develop a profit motive behind WCBB specifically but women's sports in general. Even if you only use the site occasionally, it works out to about 0.38 a week - I can usually find that behind my sofa cushions!