Clear Lake Falconhoops

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.

 Commentary articles on games will be discontinued. Basic game results showing score by quarter will be provided. Provision of individual scoring in each game is still undecided. 

Comments on the STATS, October 2011 

Initially (ten years ago) my desire to honor the boys and to be fair to them compelled me to provide the stats but 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.  Consequently, the individual player stats will not longer be collected for this website.

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 (the coach reports the team's stats on maxpreps.com). 

In my opinion my stats overall have been more accurate than the team's and my desire to honor the boys and be fair compels me to provide the stats. Reviewing the game videos many times to resolve significant differences has confirmed that for me. The reason is simple. My stats are the result of two veteran pairs of eyes: mine and a stat recorder with a decade of experience recording the stats. In addition, I video record every game for the purpose of resolving any questions which arise regarding the stats. Not all videos are reviewed to verify my stats but it does happen when significant 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, different coaches record some stats differently especially when it comes to assists and rebounds. I have tried to align my definitions of each stat with Coach Penders' definition. 

Prior Comments on the stats. The stats will sometimes be slow in coming to the web site. This is due to the logistics of the process and time constraints, not any lack of importance that I place on the numbers. If the stats are wrong, it is nothing personal or intentional (For a description of the process used to gather the stats. See SITE USAGE HINTS, Varsity Player Stats from the menu). If a player does not get mentioned as much as he or his relatives feel he deserves in the game write-ups, it is probably because I am not aware of something that deserves mention or because I was tired and sleepy when I entered my recollections of the game. I will diligently try to be as fair and equitable as I possibly can in everything I post on this site. What is most worthy of mention is certainly subjective but there will most assuredly be times when I omit something that should have been acknowledged. I apologize for this. A timely email from someone may help correct my oversites. A verbal reprimand by an overzealous parent will have little effect but I appreciate the interest.

The general guidelines I regard as deserving comment include: obvious acts of integrity by a player or the team, outstanding plays, outstanding effort, scoring more than 9 points, more than 4 rebounds, 4 or more assists or steals, and more than 3 blocked shots. I make no guarantees that I will not overlook something that deserves mention however.

September 19, 2001

Minutes provided by Betty Squyers

Coach Penders welcomed everyone to the meeting.  He stated this is the 3^rd year of the Booster Club and that they have been very helpful.  All school budgets have been cut so we will need to raise more money.  Our Booster Club has always raised more than any other CCISD school.

The CCISD Shootout tournament will be on 09/24/11 at Clear Creek High School. We  will have to provide drinks and concession workers 1:30-5:30pm.  Varsity and JV pre-season games will be coached by Don Wilkerson and Tim Glover. 

Coach Penders said his door is always open for the players to come and talk to him or any of the other coaches.  You can email or text him if you have any questions.  All players should attend open gym.

Benjetta West welcomed everyone to the meeting.  Judy Arrington gave the treasurer's report and thanked Don Wilkerson and his wife for doing the audit and getting everything arranged. 

Benjetta discussed the “Meet the Coaches” social event that will take place on TBD date at Double Daves.  We will have a Car Wash, on Saturday, date TBD.  We will have several locations and will split the players up at the locations.

Kate Skol discussed Sponsorship, Membership and Volunteer forms.  Everyone will be required to work 2 shifts at the concession stand.   We are looking for someone to Chair the Concession Stand.  Lisa Dillon asked if we had a signup sheet and we do not yet.  Judy asked if we had a deadline for Sponsors. We will let everyone know at the next meeting.

Benjetta talked about the clearlakefalconhoops.com 3 on 3 tournament on 10/22. This is a very good fundraiser for us.  The Flyer has been sent to CCISD for approval.

Judy will order 1” bracelets with “Lake Win Games” to sell as a fund raiser.  Coach Penders suggested we also sell T-shirts.  Merita Parker will look into shirts and yard signs.  Lisa Dillon suggested we tell everyone to sign up for the Kroger card.  They will donate to our program. 

Don Wilkerson introduced himself and explained his role with program.  He also gave out the website address, www.clearlakefalconhoops.com

Benjetta announced a varsity tournament is set for 10/1-10/2, we have no details yet.  She reminded everyone we have a meeting the 2^nd Monday of each month.

Meeting adjourned at 7:12pm