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Message: [QUOTE="NycUcWbbFan, post: 5304272, member: 13453"] Re: Source of OffRtg and DefRtg In the table in my post, there are yearly hyperlinks from SRCBB where, if you click on “More School Info”, you will see these statistics as well as SOS and SRS. SRCBB provides the [URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/about/glossary.html#srs']SRS [/URL]statistic which blends OffRtg, DefRtg and SOS into one single statistic. [LIST] [*]It is doing what you are doing but in a more scientific and [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20180531115621/https://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/index4837.html?p=37']transparent[/URL] way and ranks every WCBB team. [/LIST] This will sound trite, but I and many others look at your explanations — which you think proves your point — but to us (and I am very mathematically and statistically fluent), it is a black box. [LIST] [*]I am used to reading and interpreting very dry statistics, but I haven’t seen any supporting iota of your work; [*]We take you for your word &0 on your work and even then, don’t really think you have proven your point on “offense rather than defense” wins championships with ironclad proof; [*]All I can discern is that you have pointed general observations on the limitations of point statistics and that SOS muddles normative measurement (on a chicken-egg factor-method exercise to explain winning a championship) which you try to rectify but your approach is yours alone, not-peer reviewed, and is subjective. [/LIST] Again SRCBB has a better approach than you do and it is their livelihood expertise to have a better (not perfect — none can be) statistic to explain a WCBB team’s performance. [LIST] [*]They don’t even seem to even try to isolate SRS into an offensive and defensive factor &1 whereas you think you have a better way of doing so. [/LIST] &0 I do find it odd that you are prickly on contrary viewpoints — we have not been on yours — even though your blackbox analysis is certainly not canon and certainly not dispositive. &1 For example, in the 2002-03 season, SRCBB shows UConn was first in SRS, 9th in OffRtg, 2nd in DefRtg and 10th in SOS. And leaves it at that. You have taken the extra leap to say that Offense rather than Defense wins championships over the past 26 years. [/QUOTE]

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