Wagner wrote:
HGL Offensive and Defensive (Opponent) Team Stats-posts in question can be found from here, check out how your team fares in each of 45 stats categories:
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MrJ wrote:
No surprises from my end. Just highlights (for everyone) my weaknesses! lol
Otherwise, great stats, Wagner. Thank you for providing them
+1
I can share your slight anxiousness (that I possibly can read in between the lines, or am I just imagining?) about that, as I'm almost certain some or even most managers have checked out these numbers to take advantage of my weaknesses as well.
But that's how it's in real life as well, coaches/coaching staff takes a very close look at stats and tries to find an angle on how to best approach their opponent to maximize potential to win the match (or lose by as little as possible, if their opponent still on that season seems like an insurmountable object)...
This naturally requires that you have an idea what are your own teams and your opponents' strengths and weaknesses, and preferably what's your opponents' preferred playing style ((and how does that suit to your preferred match tactic(s)).
This is where HGL Team Stats steps into picture. And now that we have finished 'everyone plays against everyone'-Regular Season, these stats are totally complete, and comparable with each other in a fair manner.
Of course some managers might be more tempted to gain an advantage in 'initially no stats-league' (such as HGL) by using hours and hours to scout their opponents and perhaps even by calculating some of these same stats themselves (to reveal their opponents' strengths and weaknesses), but I also do think that not many would have time and/or patience do to it at least in as thorough manner as it would require to get 'a full picture' of team performance.
So these are also published, not because I'm a stats freak/fan of some kind, but also to give
every HGL manager an easy access to this data, without having to use hours and hours to actually gather it.
There's still some work left to do though if you want to gain knowledge on your opponent, as you at least need to know what to look for in those 45 stats categories, and also in some cases do your own math (if you want to for example find "a turnover margin" for some team, as mentioned in my previous post to demars) so not everything is brought to your plate as readily chewed.
Thank you also for providing those HGL Top20 player stats, they were a desirable addition and it'll be interesting to see if same players will be on the top of the league on Season 5, should you also be willing to provide such stats on next HGL Season as well! (I understood you are intending to publish them, but as this is all voluntary work, I didn't want to make an assumption/statement that they will absolutely be published).
PS. @all: if anyone wants to discuss about meaning of some stats category (or how essential they think it is in basketball), this discussion is of course more than welcome and I'm happy trying to help if someone wants an explanation on some stats category. I'm no professional though, so many managers such as MrJ or LennuK. might be much more knowledgeable about stats than I am, but what I also meant is that I don't have doubt in my mind that they or some other managers in our HGL community wouldn't be willing to help you also, if you'd like to learn the deeper meaning of any/each stats category (in order to be able to use stats more efficiently to analyze your team and your future opponents).
Having said that, we have very many experienced managers in HGL community, of which many probably have basketball/even basketball coaching/analyzing background themselves, so I think most of you (if not all) already know exactly how to interpretate them.