Breaking down the defense

Found April 14, 2009 on Spartans Weblog:

A couple months ago, KenPom added something called “defensive fingerprint” on each team page. Mr. Pomeroy’s explanation: Defensive Fingerprint attempts to objectively identify the style of a team’s defense. Inputs into the system are the departure from the D-1 norm of the following defensive characteristics… - assist percentage (triple weight, higher means a more likely zone team) - [...]

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