Greetings again from Carousel Analytics. In this piece, we will take a deeper dive into the relationship between staff continuity and team performance, as measured by efficiency margin. In part 1 (link here) we essentially confirmed conventional wisdom and found that there was a relationship between the two – as staff continuity increased team performance …
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Staff turnover at the NCAA men’s basketball division 1 level is par for the course. If you add up all of the head and assistant coach seasons from 2007-2019 there were 16,686 seasons coached. In those 16,686 seasons, 4124 ended with a job change either by promotion, demotion, or moving to a new school. In …
Read More → Greetings and welcome to the Carousel Analytics blog. In this post I am going to look at a simple question with a seemingly obvious answer: Is staff experience important? Or, more specifically, do teams with more experienced coaching staffs have more on court success than teams with less experienced staffs? Conventional wisdom would say that …
Read More → Greetings and welcome to the Carousel Analytics blog. The goal of this blog is to evaluate head and assistant college basketball coaches and coaching staffs from an analytical perspective. In general I will look at individual coaches (how does Coach X compare to other coaches with similar profiles?), or entire staffs (do more experienced staffs …
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