Hey Jon, sorry to see you go, I always enjoyed reading your blog.

I had a question that I thought was interesting, so if you ever come back, I’d be happy to hear what you think.

I would say there are two kinds of rebounds, close-in and far-off. When a player misses a close shot, the rebounds tend to bounce close to the hoop whereas far shots sometimes have close-in rebounds and sometimes have far-off rebounds.

Dwight Howard is an amazing presence around the hoop, but I would expect that his strength would consist of more close-in rebounds. Far-off rebounds I would expect would be more unpredictable and I would expect most point guard rebounds are of this variety.

So, the question is, is Dwight Howard’s rebounding not being put to full use on a team of three-point shooters, or is this more than compensated for by being on a team with no natural other centers (aside from Gortat)?

Jon, I’ve been lurking around here for a while, loving your stuff. Hopefully this is a good farewell (job with NBA franchise or ESPN or something) and not a bad farewell. Good luck to you in the future and thanks for the good reading and inspiration. Thanks for all the hard work!

Thanks plonden and Michael. It is a good farewell, I assure you.

That sucks, I loved the NCAA plus/minus… noone else on the internet provides that…

Hey Jon,

Are you interested in having someone carry the stats through for the site? There’s got to be someone that could help. It’s a really cool resource.

Zipsfan,

I’ll think about it, but unfortunately I think the data needs to stay private too. Of course, I didn’t have access to anything exclusive, and there are definitely people out there capable of reproducing the numbers I made. Someone just needs to do it.

Suffering from withdrawal….any chance of doing one final plus/minus update for the NCAA Tourney?

Not to take take away from Jon’s great work with the NCAA plus/minus stats (I love all your analysis and articles!), but statsheet.com now has plus/minus data for college basketball if you are looking for it. Jon - appreciate all your great work with the this website. Glad to hear that you are moving on to something even bigger and better!

Statsheet.com is pretty cool, but the plus/minus data presentation is lacking. You can only see one player’s numbers at a time (no way to glance at a whole roster’s plus/minuses), and it does not separate offensive impact from defensive impact like the ratings here do.