If you follow Virginia sports here on Streaking the Lawn, you know we love using new-age stats to help tell the stories of the Cavaliers.
Tim Mulholland did it to explain to to Triangle troglodyte Caulton Tudor why Mike Scott should have been a unanimous first-team All-ACC selection in 2012. KenPom’s pace-adjusted numbers are indispensable when evaluating a basketball program that has fewer possessions per game than any other NCAA team, year after year.
Fancy numbers are making their way into our football coverage, too. They can tell us what an opponent’s weak spots might be in a game preview, or how a newly hired coach can help a particular unit improve.