Guest: Simon Gerszberg, Founder and CEO of ShotQuality


In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, founder and CEO of ShotQuality Simon Gerszberg joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss optimizing a player and teams’ shot selection.


Simon Gerszberg, a data analyst for Colgate Basketball, founded a product that calculates the quality of shots on a play-by-play basis. The goal of the website is to create actual change for coaches by optimizing their player and teams’ shot selection. www.shotquality.com is now used by over 40 NCAA teams and over 5 NBA teams.


Shot Quality is calculated by multiplying the percent chance a shot has of going in, i.e. the probability that the basket is made and the type of shot, denoted by the no. of points that shot entails - either a 2-pointer or a 3-pointer.


Over 90 disparate variables are incorporated to output the overall ShotQuality. The most important aspect of calculating ShotQuality is computing the individual player's shot-making ability, and there are a plethora of factors involved in quantifying this.


Breakdown
1:00 - Why ShotQuality.com
3:00 - Calculating Shot Quality
5:00 - Independent of the Outcome
7:30 - Creating Paralysis by Analysis
11:30 - Game Strategy
14:30 - Shot Quality Defense
16:30 - Quality of Opponent Affecting Metrics
20:00 - Conversation about Player Development
24:00 - Improving Shot Quality
28:00 - Evaluating Shot Selection into Intuition
31:00 - Dribble Threes
33:30 - High School Coaches on Shot Quality
36:00 - Offense vs Defense on Shot Selection
40:00 - Assessment of Coaches
42:00 - Pythagorean Theory Expectation
44:00 - Unconventional Offensive Philosophy
48:00 - Quality Rebounders
51:00 - Conclusion


Simon Gerszberg’s Bio:
Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-gerszberg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-gerszberg)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shot_quality (https://twitter.com/shot_quality)
Email: simon@shotquality.com
Contact Number: 914-715-5337


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