Suppose that baseball statisticians had developed a complicated mathematical formula involving hits, walks, strikeouts, put-outs and errors in order to calculate … Pitch Count.
Seems a rather convoluted method for determining something that can easily and quite simply be tallied, huh?
But ya know …
… that’s pretty much the way hoop folk keep track of a piece of game data that is just as elemental to basketball as a “pitch” is to baseball. Hell, the Naismith Number-crunchers take their digital diagnosis in this regard to a whole ‘nother level – they “average” a team’s performance in matters of shooting, rebounding and protecting the ball with their opponents’ corresponding numbers … take a look at the actual computation.