User Spotlight: Sportswriter Sabreena Merchant
From sportswriters to avid fans, a look into how a community beyond coaching staff that relies on advanced stats and analytics in basketball
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The Ten Minute Scouting Report (Basketball)
In 10 minutes, understand team and player-level strengths and weaknesses to better train, prepare and play.
How to Leverage Analytics to Optimize Your Game Strategy and Lineup Rotations
Pivot Analysis is allowing coaches to leverage advanced team and player stats to build an effective game strategy and lineup rotations.
How to utilize free throw rate (FTR) to win more games
One of the most publicly divisive aspects of basketball today revolves around the way games are officiated, specifically related to...
Why measuring TOV% is more accurate than counting turnovers
Another aspect of Dean Oliver's Four Factors is Turnover Percentage or in short-hand, TOV%. This is a gauge of the percentage of...
Part 3: Anatomy of Loss - Using Pivot Analysis to Learn from a Loss
In the final installment of our Duke case study, we will go over how a single game can be analyzed and visualized. Similar to the first...
Why measuring ORR is better than just counting rebounds
When looking at a box score, some of the first stats a coach will check are the rebounding totals. Rebounds are obviously an extremely...
Part 2: Analyzing lineups over a season, picking a fifth starter and building the best rotation
Picking a starting lineup, finding the best in-game rotations, and identifying when to switch things up are some of the hardest decisions...
Offensive and Defensive Ratings (Net Rating) - What Do They Tell Us?
In the world of advanced basketball analytics, offensive and defensive ratings are used as a way to track and compare how an individual...
What Is EFG% and Why Should You Measure It Instead of FG%
Did you know that 67% of the Houston Rockets' field goal attempts were from beyond the 3-point line in the 2018-2019 season? Traditional...
Introduction to Four Factors
Whether in the locker room or at the local bar watching a game, the discussion of who will win and why is a mainstay. But diving into the...
Part 1: Zion Williamson vs RJ Barrett
Now that the 2019 playoffs have wrapped up, the league's focus has turned to this year's draft. The NBA draft class of 2019 boasts a...
Case Study: Duke Basketball
In order to demonstrate some of the uses of analytics and our application, we will be highlighting some basketball analysis topics, using...
Beyond the Box Score - Using Analytics to Understand Team and Player Impact
Tracking individual stats and box scores has been a standard method of basketball analysis across most organized levels of play. However,...
Basketball Analytics Software At Your Fingertips
The suite of tools provided by Pivot Analysis are focused on supporting and enabling player and team development in basketball. We view...
Coming Soon: Pivot Analysis
In the coming months, Pivot Analysis will be formally launching our advanced basketball stats analysis software. Keeping in line with our...
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