[81alum]

MT,

I LOVE your stats.  I probably am biased towards the offense--mainly because it takes more basketball IQ to understand defenses than I (yet) possess.  But I do agree with VG that the main problem with Stanford this year--uncharacteristically--is our offense. 

That said, your stats seem to confirm a lot of my intuitions.  I sensed that Sara's presence was a good thing, for example.  Amber's performance in the last game seems to have been on par with Chiney and Toni--but clearly not as positive in the other three games.

I wonder if it would be possible to break down the differentials by offense and by defense.  That is, one column would show how many "normalized" points the opponents scored while a player was in the game, the other column would show how many "normalized" points we scored while a player was in the game.  That way a player's contributions on offense could not mask defensive liabilities, and vice versa.  Just another layer of information...

[81alum]

MT,

I LOVE your stats.  I probably am biased towards the offense--mainly because it takes more basketball IQ to understand defenses than I (yet) possess.  But I do agree with VG that the main problem with Stanford this year--uncharacteristically--is our offense. 

That said, your stats seem to confirm a lot of my intuitions.  I sensed that Sara's presence was a good thing, for example.  Amber's performance in the last game seems to have been on par with Chiney and Toni--but clearly not as positive in the other three games.

I wonder if it would be possible to break down the differentials by offense and by defense.  That is, one column would show how many "normalized" points the opponents scored while a player was in the game, the other column would show how many "normalized" points we scored while a player was in the game.  That way a player's contributions on offense could not mask defensive liabilities, and vice versa.  Just another layer of information...