(01-26-2017 02:40 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  Want to have a chuckle? Go back and look at the number of different players with starts last year. 13 different players. Everybody on the team had at least 1 - including a walk-on and a football player.

This year, 6 players. Would probably be 5 if Chad wasn't injured.

Regardless of what is happening at GT this year - we were really a mess last year.

You ever wonder why that was?

(01-26-2017 03:04 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  That's not all true, is it? You enticed me to do some research.
You lost your top 4 scorers from last year.
And you have 2 guys back who started at least 14 games.
And UK is pretty much always returning some of the fewest minutes played. They returned 2,250 minutes and you returned 2,388 minutes. Don't know if UK is least experienced in the nation, but they are less experienced than you.

http://www.ramblinwreck.com/sports/m-bas...16aab.html

Quote:According to ESPN.com's John Gasaway, Tech is the least experienced team in Division I, returning only 25 percent of its possession-minutes from 2015-16. Gasaway measures experience by calculating a team's "returning possession minutes," the percentage of minutes that a player recorded last season, multiplied by the percentage of the team's possessions that he used (as listed at kenpom.com).

(01-26-2017 07:17 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(01-26-2017 03:04 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  That's not all true, is it? You enticed me to do some research.
You lost your top 4 scorers from last year.
And you have 2 guys back who started at least 14 games.
And UK is pretty much always returning some of the fewest minutes played. They returned 2,250 minutes and you returned 2,388 minutes. Don't know if UK is least experienced in the nation, but they are less experienced than you.

http://www.ramblinwreck.com/sports/m-bas...16aab.html

Quote:According to ESPN.com's John Gasaway, Tech is the least experienced team in Division I, returning only 25 percent of its possession-minutes from 2015-16. Gasaway measures experience by calculating a team's "returning possession minutes," the percentage of minutes that a player recorded last season, multiplied by the percentage of the team's possessions that he used (as listed at kenpom.com).

That's a bit unnecessarily convulted, right? You've got minutes returning (UK has the fewest). You've got minutes per game returning (again UK). And you've got this.

So it's really not the least experienced team by minutes. It's a ratio flexed by possessions. So a team with more possessions could have more experience returning, but using this ratio would still qualify as "less experienced". Weird. But if it's a good tag line in the media notes for you guys - go with it. Just be sure to frame it more accurately.

Tied with 14 Notre Dame at half

(01-28-2017 01:12 PM)dwash Wrote:  Tied with 14 Notre Dame at half

And they win.

THE THRILLERDOME IS BACK BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You mean GT fans are not obsessing over a game they won but unimpressivley over a weak opponent? They are looking at the big picture?

(01-28-2017 02:00 PM)Mimi Wrote:  You mean GT fans are not obsessing over a game they won but unimpressivley over a weak opponent? They are looking at the big picture?