PPS - 12/10

Below is the Player Productivity Scores for the guys in the game against Bowling Green State University.  Heading into this game I used PPS for both teams to help me predict a Valpo Victory.  Let's see what the PPS says about each teams' productivity to further assist me in knowing whether this is a stat worth keeping.  We'll look at both teams top 6 guys in terms of minutes played.

Valpo
R. Broekhoff    1.22857
K. VanWijk       1.00000
*E. Buggs        0.53333
**M. Kenney       0.4
J. Harris           0.71429
W. Bogan         0.16667

*DNP in the second half due to injury
**Monster dunks count as a normal field goal

Looking at Valpo's scores the Crusaders really need Will Bogan to start hitting a few more jump shots.  We have one guard already who really isn't a scoring threat in Buggs, but we can't have two. Let's get that shot falling!  Matt's score might be lower then expected.  He was hampered by the four turnovers he was credited with.  Turnovers also kept KVW's score from being even higher.  He had a case of the brick hands last night it seemed.

BGSU
S. Thomas       0.64864
A. Calhoun      1.12903
C. Sealey         0.375
J. Crawford     0.71429
D. Brown        0.63333
T. Oglesby     -0.05556

Crawford's score could've been better if he hadn't turned it over 4 times.  Calhoun had a nice score, and it could've been even better had he not missed 8 field goal attempts.

We'll keep looking at these numbers and hopefully can eventually come to a conclusion on the value of this statistic.

A PPS Preview of Saturday

For anyone who has read this blog before you know that I like tracking something I'm calling the Player Productivity Score (PPS). Remember, PPS is figured using a formula takes into account only statistics that appear in a final box score. The final score should tell you how many positive things a player does per minute of game time that they play.  

I thought I'd take a look at the upcoming opponent and compare their scores with Valpo's scores.  Danny will have the regular game preview for you shortly.  For this study I'm looking only at players who have averaged more then 8 minutes per game on the season and have played in all (or in KVW's case just about all) of their team's games.  The order the players are listed in is the order in which they appear on their school's statistics website.


Bowling Green                                                      Valparaiso
S. Thomas   0.62389                                        R. Broekhoff   0.80690
A. Calhoun  0.42935                                        K. VanWijk      0.84729  
D. Brown     0.42640                                        R. Edwards    0.72034
J. Crawford 0.32955                                         J. Harris         0.57674
C. Sealy       0.43478                                        M. Kenney      0.47843
L. Kraus      0.20988                                        W. Bogan        0.38174
C. Black       0.30968                                        E. Buggs        0.27315
T. Oglesby  0.40678                                         T. Kurth         0.08197

From looking at each teams' schedule I'd say Valpo has played the tougher opponents so far.  Valpo has also played one more game (which could make the scores fluctuate a little bit in either direction this early in the year).  Out of the 16 players listed Valpo guys fill up 5 of the top 6 spots. Judging from the PPS scores Valpo should win this game.