Every year I like to go a little (a lot) overboard in bracket prep. For those of you who still have Excel, you get to automatically create your very own Sethchart (that's a download link). Put in the name of the team you want to look at, and it’ll show you the lineups and injuries and player data including the shot charts.
FAQ for these graphics.
Google Sheets has a hard time converting the pretty charts so you really need Excel for it, sorry. If one of you has the capability to convert these better please let me know and we'll make that available to the gentry.
I suggest taking some time to familiarize yourself the shooting charts, which show shot type and volume (specifically shot equivalents per 30 minutes) because that will show you quickly where a team’s scoring comes from and what kind of player each guy is. Usage (%Poss) also lets you know who’s driving the offense. PRPG! boxes are color shaded—they’re not perfect but they’re decent at picking out which players are problems for the opponent and which are problems for the team.
I also made the traditional Bracket Assist tool so you can compare two teams at a glance.
I highly recommend making your own copy so you can click around at your leisure.
Most of the data are from Kenpom and Torvik, with the injuries from a combination of lists, Kenpom data, and googling that resulted in ad-blasted local papers behind a paywall. Distance factor was calculated by putting the schools' addresses into Google Maps (I have a tool). The shot charts are data from Hoop-Math.
[After THE JUMP: ten basketball tools I use (copied from last year)]
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