"Duke Will Begin Using Player Tracking system"

[cto]

Interesting tidbit from today's Wall St Journal (of all odd places):

"The player-tracking cameras that are now in all 30 NBA arenas have revolutionized the way NBA wonks think about the sport. Now they'll be aimed at a new target: college basketball.

"Stats LLC's SportVU system—which codes the location coordinates of the players, referees and ball 25 times per second—will record every movement this season inside Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke is the first college team to embrace the technology that has swarmed the NBA in recent years.

"Limited by opportunities to collect game data—NBA teams play 82 regular-season games, while Duke has 17 home games against teams of varying quality—Duke also outfitted its practice facility adjacent to Cameron. "You add 75 or 100 practices when the quality of your opponent is the same every day, and you can get a much better picture of who a player is," said Kevin Cullen, Duke's director of information technology.

"Another team that stands to benefit from SportVU is Marquette, whose coach Buzz Williams values advanced statistics as much as anyone in college basketball. Marquette shares with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks the BMO Harris Bradley Center, where the infrastructure existed, so the Golden Eagles will see SportVU data for their 16 home games."

 

[Whitey23]

Makes this article from Tuesday a little out of date...

Which coaches love analytics?

Coaches who don't love advanced metrics

Jim Boeheim, Syracuse: "He's a deep thinker and a numbers guy, but he's not a guy who is going to compute readouts and study analytics," Syracuse assistant and coach-in-waiting Mike Hopkins said. "He's an old-school guy who has his own system with numbers, but it's not using KenPom or any of that new-age stuff."

Mike Krzyzewski, Duke. "We used it as a complement to what we were doing, not as a blueprint," Northwestern head coach and former Duke assistant Chris Collins said.

 

[Orangepace]

I wonder how expensive the implementation of the program is.. I would be very surprised if SU doesn't go this route sooner than later.

 

[GonzoInMD]

From the thread title, I thought that Duke was going to start implanting GPS chips in their players.:rolling:

 

[realorange]

Duke will now be able to optimize their flop to a level the officials won't be able to see the intent.