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Message: [QUOTE="OkaForPrez, post: 4868907, member: 997"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://barttorvik.com/[/URL] With respect for the Pom Pom's (Pomeroy fan's if you will), Torvik is more my cup of T. We're now halfway into the conference regular season and there's some data to munch on. Shall we? According to Dr Torvik (I don't know if he's a Doctor) UConn has 3! players in the top 20 of the analytics POY race. Stop reading and put them in order in your head right now. If you said Cam Spencer (7), Alex Karaban (19), and Tristen Newton (20). You are correct! There are only three players in the country with an ATO of 3.0, a True shooting % above 60 and a steal rate above 2% (Cam, Richie Saunders of BYU and Jeremey Roach of Duke) Cam shoots 3x the triples of either of those peers. Cling Kong has been scrubbed for usage as Trovik requires you play in at least 40% of the minutes available for the season. His BPM (Box plus minus) is 8th in the country and he's at 38% for minutes so he's about to come back into view. Speaking of ORTG, who has the highest on the team? If you said Tolo well done! Get the heck out of here you didn't say Tolo :D. His steal, slam and splash against X were enough to shoot him all the way up to a 147.6 ORTG on a very, very small sample size. That would be good enough for 22nd in the country amongst high majors when you allow all the crazy small sample size players into the soup. Other fun player notes. Alex is the #2 ranked sophomore in the country behind Kyle Filipowski. (Again, recall DC only not factored here due to the time missed). Steph is now 6th overall among freshmen, behind JT Toppin of New Mexico, Reed Sheppard of Kentucky, Walter and Missi of Baylor and Owen Freeman of Iowa. Hassan Diarra ranks 45th in ORTG among high major conference players. He would be starting on a lot of teams this year. Samson Johnson leads the country in EFG% among high majors who have played 40% of the min available at a whopping 73.7% Here's a graph of all players with a min % of 35 or greater, usage of 18% or greater an offensive rating of 115 or greater. [ATTACH type="full"]95966[/ATTACH] This is a pretty strong who's who list in CBB this year but only one team, UConn, has 4 players on this list. Many power teams have 2: Creighton has Kalk and Scheierman Carolina has Bacot and Davis Auburn has Broome and Williams Marquette has Kolek and Igadaro Houston has Sheed and Cryer Clemson has Hall & Shieflinn Purdue has Eddy and Braden Smith Alex, T New, Cam and Cling are all on here and Castle was the best looking player on the floor last game. Scary. Here's the top 20 teams plotted out for Adj O and Adj D [ATTACH type="full"]95967[/ATTACH] Uconn looks to be in a 1B by the metrics behind Houston and Purdue and ahead of hte likes of Auburn, Arizona, Alabama and BYU. That said this is where UConn ranks for the season which includes the Clingan and Castle absences. Lots of data for your Friday afternoon to suggest we're very very good. [/QUOTE]

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