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

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Yeah I'm not a basketball person, but I was just trying to give some positive critiques mathematically.

It seems that having the two coefficients for assists and pts with a wide margin would lower the regression (accuracy) since one is dependent on the other (it's not an assist unless a point is scored, so that person making the basket is pretty important). It's a differential equation, not linear. So taking it out is easier than breaking it down. If the goal is "should be rewarded with more playing time" then the scoreboard doesn't matter and points being scored are included in the fact that an assist happened. Who those points are attributed to is probably attributed more to position than anything else. That's kind of taken care of since there is a finite number of each.

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Yea. Stats can only go so far. I have always been frustrated with assists due to the fact that a perfect pass can go unrecognized with a botched layup. All basketball stats are basically dependent on the the action of someone else. That is what makes basketball great, and what makes using statistics tough.

Just trying to formulate something that can at some level explain and compare play without using the eye test. That is up to the individual viewer as each of us look for different things in players.