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.
SEE RELATED: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 |
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