re: LSU Basketball: The SoS Rating (Score on Stats)

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What do you do for a living, if you don't mind me asking? This seems pretty time-consuming.

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I do some accounting work for a construction company. I am a very quick and efficient worker. When I work, I work my arse off, when I don't work, I do things like this. I was able to do this pretty quickly. I already keep spreadsheets of stats so its just copy and pasting formulas to make this work.

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What kind of background do you have in statistics, particularly sports statistics? Just wondering how someone can become so immersed and seemingly proficient in this, it's fascinating, really.

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I have a bs and ms in finance. I took 2 PhD classes when I was thinking about getting my PhD in finance; financial research and math for economist. Both of these really helped my skills in statistics and using equations.

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Also, I'm a bit curious about your connections to LSU hoops. I've always been impressed with your in-depth knowledge of the team, to go with a passion for the program that it desperately needs.

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My late father and I would go to games since I can remember. I continued my love. In 2007 (Spring of my Freshman year) I worked at the PMAC setting up and tearing down for basketball games. Besides that, I have always loved stats. People can see whatever they want about players, but stats do not lie. So using stats has been something thatI have always loved.

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It wasn't completely a joke. I just recently learned about teams tracking hockey stats for basketball, so that's why I asked.

It was kind of a joke because you factor in so much else that it would probably get cumbersome if you tried to put it in there.

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Sometimes you get the best explanation out of simplicity.

1) I never knew you were that smart.
2) you must be a huge basketball fan.
3) thought about getting paid for this like moneyball?

This is golden. I don't like the name. sos sounds too much like strength of schedule. How about StatOS Rating? It isn't as exact as an acronym, but has better legs w regard to branding.

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This is golden. I don't like the name. sos sounds too much like strength of schedule. How about StatOS Rating? It isn't as exact as an acronym, but has better legs w regard to branding.

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Well it is really just cause that's what people on here call me. Its a self-named rating system. I kinda used a play on words that made sense calling it score on stats cause basically that's what it is, but it's really just because my South of South pinname.

I really enjoy and appreciate your posts. Keep em coming.

Btw, did you think of this yourself? I could see it becoming an accepted major metric frankly.

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Btw, did you think of this yourself? I could see it becoming an accepted major metric frankly.

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Yea. When I was in my financial research class and started learning what economist and financial experts used equations for it made me realize how far their worth can go. I have wanted to put something together for a while and I finally did it.

Math is a very special science that can be used in all sorts of nerdy ways.

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NBA.com evaluates all players based on the efficiency formula: ((Points + Rebounds + Assists + Steals + Blocks) - ((Field Goals Att. - Field Goals Made) + (Free Throws Att. - Free Throws Made) + Turnovers)).

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The main problem I have with NBA's PER is that it gives too much bias to players who are scorers. To count a block as the same value as a single point is crazy to me. Similar with steals. It doesn't give credit where credit is due. There are so many instances where the easiest part of the play was the layup due to a great pass, but the shooter gets 2 points and the great pass only gets 1.