There is an exceptionally nifty addition to Navy’s basketball game notes: A game-by-game look at plus-minus.
Loyal readers know of my affinity for the stat in basketball, which certainly isn’t an end-all, be-all. But it has its purposes, and if a team is unusually good or unusually bad with one player on the floor, this is a way to detect that pattern beyond instinct.
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So with that in mind, it’s actually possible to dissect the Mids’ play not just for a single game but also over the course of the season.
Toss in the data from last night’s 73-67 victory over Penn, and it makes for a worthy midafternoon blog post:
| Player |
vs. PENN
|
Season
|
Per Min.
|
| 1-Connolly |
0 |
-5 |
-0.11 |
| 2-Blair |
0 |
-3 |
-0.19 |
| 5-Harris |
-1 |
+4 |
0.01 |
| 10-Brown |
+6 |
-1 |
-0.01 |
| 15-Garcia |
+5 |
-7 |
-0.03 |
| 21-Topercer |
0 |
-8 |
-0.13 |
| 23-Avworo |
+4 |
-9 |
-0.04 |
| 25-Sugars |
+6 |
-16 |
-0.06 |
| 31-Banos |
DNP |
+1 |
0.25 |
| 32-Brooks |
0 |
-22 |
-0.69 |
33-Newsome
|
0 |
-8 |
-0.13 |
| 40-Wilson |
0 |
+7 |
0.12 |
| 44-Veazey |
+10 |
+7 |
0.04 |
—- Patrick Stevens
