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Message: [QUOTE="Phil, post: 2502768, member: 66"] I was working on something and wanted to look at the distribution of points scored per game per team as well as the overall average points scored. I also wanted to look at the distribution of points given up and the overall average. Obviously, by definition the averages must match. I used this site: [URL="http://stats.ncaa.org/rankings?sport_code=WBB&division=1"]NCAA Statistics[/URL] To get the numbers (go to scoring offense, change the entries from the default to 345 and copy and paste in Excel; rinse and repeat for scoring defense ;) The problem is I get an average number of points scored per game as 67.4 But I get an average number given up as 65.0. I initially looked at the average of the averages which would necessarily match but it was too far off to make sense so I calculated the aggregate averages (rather than the average average). While doing so I saw that the database has 4575 games for both offense and defense so that matches, but the aggregate points scored are 308362, While the aggregate points given up are 297412. Those should match. If they were off by a handful I might've guessed some reporting glitch although even that doesn't make sense but they differ by over 10,000 points. Before I write to the NCAA, can someone help me figure out if I'm missing something stupid which seems likely? As an aside, while looking at this I happen to sort the data by points scored and I was initially surprised to see that 74 teams have scored more than 1000 points to date, but UConn is not one of them (obviously, this is prior to today's game). I won't share the reason here to give someone something to do if they are interested but once the trivial answer is reveal that be interested in discussing why it is the case. [/QUOTE]

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