george w. harris

Welcome to the first in my weekly series
of posts assessing the offensive & defensive
performance of ACC teams in all games.
Obviously, meaningful comparisons can be
difficult this early in the season.

First is the rating of team offensive
performance, from best (highest) to worst
(lowest); then the rating of team defensive
performance, from best (lowest) to worst
(highest); and finally, a tally of each team's
tendencies, from highest offense to highest
defense. The basic form of these ratings is

[points/(def rebounds + turnovers)]

with the obvious team's number for each
category.

Too early to tell much; unsurprisingly,
FSU is dead last in offense, and Virginia is dead
last in defense.

Offense

Rank)Team Rating

1)UNC 2.903
2)Wake 2.395
3)Maryland 2.324
4)NCState 2.290
5)Ga Tech 2.280
6)Duke 2.030
7t)Virginia 2.000
7t)Clemson 2.000
9)FSU 1.865

Average 2.241

Defense

Rank)Team Rating

1)Clemson 0.948
2)Maryland 1.000
3)FSU 1.043
4)NCState 1.095
5)Ga Tech 1.250
6)Wake 1.297
7)UNC 1.391
8)Duke 1.474
9)Virginia 1.690

Average 1.237

Tendencies

Offense Rating
^
|
UNC 2.000
Virginia 1.841
Wake 1.768
Duke 1.732
Ga Tech 1.704
NCState 1.603
Maryland 1.549
FSU 1.405
Clemson 1.396
|
v
Defense

Average 1.675

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geoffrey f. green

Are you out of your mind? These rankings are abusrd. NC State number
4? UNC the best team in the conference? You don't have any idea what
you're talking about. I mean, do you know who Maryland has on their
team? And Ge****a Tech ahead of Duke? Why don't you learn some
frickin' mathematics and gin* up a rating system that actually MAKES
SENSE.

Everyone else with me? Donnie? Jason? Erik?

* Or maybe that's Ted's job...

- geoff

jason bell

I'm with you Geoff. Not sure what the methodology
is, but if I don't like the results, it must be
biased, right?

Does George even realize that many of these players
don't even know that some of their shots will miss
the basket?

- Jason

diamondback

I seem to remember this system being remarkably accurate last year. Keep it
up George.

geoffrey f. green

Well, if his rankings were so darned accurate, then he'd certainly be
willing to stand behind them. But what happens when I email George W.
Harris <gharrus@mundsprung.com>? The mail bounces back.

Hey, rsbc is a rough place. If he's not willing to stand behind his
methodology, then he should get out of the fire and head into the
kitchen and cook up some melba toast.

- geoff

donnie barnes

Sure, you leave town for ONE STINKING AFTERNOON to drive to Charlotte and
watch your team play a game and you miss out on your FAVORITE passtime.
Then you come home all that way only to find some dood who can't even
spell his own name right has STOLEN your thunder by ripping George a
new one over his ABSOLUTELY INSANE rating "system." We all ****ing know
it's nothing but darts thrown at a board, George. It has to be, because
otherwise it's JUST PLAIN WRONG. Wait, UNC is on top of one of the
ratings.

Nevermind.


--Donnie

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edward m. kennedy

Leaving out Miami, West Virginia, and BC was inexcusable.
That's like leaving out the bitter lime.

--Tedward

archieleach

Ummm.... you were saying...?