Announcement
Commentary articles on games will be discontinued. Basic game results showing individual scoring and team score by quarter will be provided.
Comments on the STATS
Initially (ten years ago) my desire to honor the boys and to be fair to them compelled me to provide timely, accurate stats.
Recording of the individual player stats during each game is a very labor intensive effort which greatly distracts from enjoying the game. An inordinate amount of time is invested for this effort to assure accuracy of the numbers. In addition, there is a high degree of duplication of effort between my statistician's effort and my effort, and the stats collected by the team's student stat recorder. Consequently, the individual player stats will not longer be collected for this website.
Individual stats for the varsity, submitted by the coaches, can be found on maxpreps.com.
Although I do not claim 100% accuracy, in my opinion my stats overall have been more accurate than the team'stats over time. Many reviews of game videos to resolve differences have confirmed that for me.
The reason is simple.
- My stats are the result of two veteran adult pairs of eyes: mine and a focused stat recorder with a decade of experience recording the stats. In addition, I video record every game partly for the purpose of resolving any questions which arise regarding the stats. Not all videos are reviewed to verify my stats but it did happen when more than minor differences occur.
- The team's stats are recorderd by a student usually with no prior experience newly trained to record the stats. The team's stats are reviewed and sometimes changed as a result of the game videos being reviewed by the coaches.
In addition, even though one would not think so, stats seem be somewhat subject to interpretation. Different high school coaches record some stats differently especially when it comes to assists, rebounds, and shots taken. One would expect it to be universally agreed upon but it is not. I have tried to align my definitions of each stat with Coach Penders' definition.
