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Message: [QUOTE="Mister2, post: 2585318, member: 8504"] I'd submit that anyone watching D1 WCBB these days cannot possibly fail to be impressed by how multi-dimensional KLS's offensive arsenal has become: cuts, drives, post-ups, mid-range jumpers, and, of course, the 3-pt. shot. To get a quantitative feel of this balance and see how it stacks up against her competition, I calculated a simple ratio (R) of points scored outside the arc to points scored inside the arc (inclusive of FTs) for each of the 30 players on the Naismith watch list. R has a theoretical lower bound of zero (no 3 points) and a theoretical upper bound of infinity (all 3 points), with unity indicating a perfect balance between points scored outside and inside the arc. I then computed the absolute value of the deviation of R from unity for each of the players and tabulated the results below in ascending order (all calculations are based on latest posted statistics through 2/18): Samuelson 0.045 Nurse 0.059 Durr 0.060 Mitchell 0.172 Ionescu 0.200 Flaherty 0.220 Cunningham 0.431 McCarty 0.439 Brown L. 0.507 Vivians 0.620 Canada 0.624 Atkins 0.630 Ogunbowale 0.707 Carter 0.719 McPhee 0.763 Nared 0.824 Collier 0.865 Anigwe 0.956 Charles 0.968 Hines-Allen 0.969 Wilson 0.973 Billings 1.000 Brown K. 1.000 Gulich 1.000 Gustafson 1.000 Hebarb 1.000 McCowan 1.000 Russell 1.000 Thomas 1.000 Williams 1.000 The above tabulation speaks for itself: Samuelson leads the pack in terms of the balance of points scored between outside and inside the arc, followed closely by Nurse and Durr. One interesting finding I'd note from this simple-minded exercise is that Kia happens to be the only player with a R>1 (she has proportionately more points from outside the arc than KLS!!!). When a team has not one, but two, players who are equally proficient in scoring outside and inside the arc, it becomes rather meaningless for its opponent to even "pick the poison". [/QUOTE]

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