I've been looking all over the site for this explanation since a couple days ago when Seth Fisher at Mgoblog.com referred to it without any explanation of his own. In the process, I signed up for the newsletter, thank-you. I'm really surprised to read that the stat is a measure of ALL 2P shots, not just MADE ones. Hard for me to get my head around the fact that the mean 2P shot distance is only about 6 feet. A six foot circle measured from the center of the hoop is 100% in the paint, and covers less than half of the paint area overall. That said, I'd be curious to also know what the median is and what is the average MADE 2P shot and average MISSED 2P shot.
Really like this new stat. I see it on the team page. Are you showing the per-game numbers on the site? I ask because I was at the Penn-Princeton game last night and don't recall seeing Princeton taking the ball down low and scoring as much as they did last night (outside of the old Pete Carril days with back doors etc. Because it was the fist Ivy game of the season, the team page had the number from that game - a pretty remarkable 4.4 for Princeton (national average 7.6) on 21-33 two-point shooting.
I've been looking all over the site for this explanation since a couple days ago when Seth Fisher at Mgoblog.com referred to it without any explanation of his own. In the process, I signed up for the newsletter, thank-you. I'm really surprised to read that the stat is a measure of ALL 2P shots, not just MADE ones. Hard for me to get my head around the fact that the mean 2P shot distance is only about 6 feet. A six foot circle measured from the center of the hoop is 100% in the paint, and covers less than half of the paint area overall. That said, I'd be curious to also know what the median is and what is the average MADE 2P shot and average MISSED 2P shot.
Enjoyable article! Reminded me that I met a guy at Syd’s Fine Foods and Spirits last night who is a Coach Mike Woodson fan.
Sadly, we did not discuss average two point distance.
Really like this new stat. I see it on the team page. Are you showing the per-game numbers on the site? I ask because I was at the Penn-Princeton game last night and don't recall seeing Princeton taking the ball down low and scoring as much as they did last night (outside of the old Pete Carril days with back doors etc. Because it was the fist Ivy game of the season, the team page had the number from that game - a pretty remarkable 4.4 for Princeton (national average 7.6) on 21-33 two-point shooting.