As University of Toledo assistant men’s basketball coach Kyle Barlow sits in his office at his computer, he admits he can get lost in the statistics and the metrics and the charts and the data for hours.
Whether preparing a detailed scouting report or simply looking up a random stat on a whim, there are numbers for almost anything you could possibly want to know through analytics services like Synergy Sports Technology and KenPom.com.
When Barlow was a graduate manager at Michigan, head coach John Beilein used to say, “We can know anything we want to know, but we can’t know everything we want to know.