Defensive Accounting Tutorial (HV+)
A real example of charting/measuring Virginia's defense against Duke.
In a newsletter from last July — Hoop Vision Weekly: Individual Defense (7/28/19) — we covered the challenges of measuring defense. In particular, the newsletter featured a defense accounting report we used at New Mexico State.
A standard box score contains steals and blocks, but it doesn’t divide the burden of credit (or blame) to individual defenders b…