More defensive fouls typically mean more free throw attempts, which are much higher percentage shots than field goal attempts. This kind of information on defensive violations, as well as many others, can give you more confidence in picking totals, spreads and player performances.
Fans frustrated with NBA officiating can now understand better if certain referees have a penchant to call more (or less) violations than other refs.
Broadcasters & media can inform their audiences how each game might be called, provide more context why a referee made a controversial call/no-call, etc.
Opposing players are scouted heavily using statistics, but three of the 13 people on the court haven’t been…until now, thanks to our daily scouting reports ranking how each official calls every violation. For teams wanting more in-depth data (like refs’ statistics calling violations on players), please contact us about our Enterprise solutions.
There is no substitute for visually reviewing every violation like we do for the following reasons:
In an unprecedented move, the NBA announced that 25-year veteran official Monty McCutchen will be moving immediately to a supervisory role in the league office to mentor and coach NBA …
In the June 9th, 2014 issue of ESPN the Magazine, writer Peter Keating featured our work in his weekly “Numbers” column.
Here’s a post from May 2014 to show the kind of analysis we’ve done in the past: Long before Chris Paul fouled Russell Westbrook on that 3-point shot with 6 …
A couple of weeks after the 2014 Sloan Conference, USA Today’s Sam Amick wrote an article about new NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s stance on being more transparent about NBA officiating. Amick also interviewed us for our opinion about this ‘transparency.’
The 2014 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference selected our research paper as one of the top 16 papers from over 300 submissions. Consequently, ESPN.com ran a feature article on our groundbreaking NBA referee analytics.
