For some time now, I have wanted to look at who the best scorers in ASC play were this past season. Now, I am going to do it. I am going to base the notion of “best scorer” on three factors: workload, shooting skill, and ball protection. For workload, I am using a player’s shot percentage (Shot%), or how many of his team’s shots he took while on the floor. Most high workloads will be upwards of 25% of a team’s shots while he is on the floor. For shooting skill, I am using true shooting percentage (TS%), which translates a player’s shooting percentages on twos, threes, and free throws into an equivalent two-point shooting percentage. For ball protection, I am using a player’s turnover percentage (TO%), or the percentage of the time a player commits a turnover relative to the number of times he tries to score.
For the player pool, I am removing all players who played less than 40% of available minutes and took less than 20% of available shots during those minutes, resulting in a group of 41 players on the men’s side and 49 players for the women. I am doing this to restrict the group of “scorers” to only those who played significant minutes and were expected to score during those minutes. To generate a player’s scoring rating (SCR), I took a player’s percentage above or below the group average for all three statistics (a Shot% of 26.3%, a TS% of 0.528, and a TO% of 15.6% for the men; 25.6%, 0.486, and 18.1% for the women) and averaged them out. In this way, I think I have a fairly accurate read on who the best scorers were during this past season.
ASC Scoring Top 15, Men
# Name, Team – SCR (Shot%/TS%/TO%)
1. Marlon Miller, UMHB – 124.4 (34.3%/0.526/10.9%)
2. Nick Haynes, CTX – 120.5 (25.9%/0.631/10.9%)
3. Bryce Hill, MCM – 120.2 (30.6%/0.542/11.0%)
4. John Derr, HSU – 115.2 (27.5%/0.543/11.3%)
5. Jeremy LaGarde, ETBU – 112.3 (32.5%/0.575/15.0%)
6. Danny Sumner, LC – 111.6 (22.8%/0.468/9.8%)
7. Matt Addison, HSU – 110.8 (35.5%/0.618/19.4%)
8. Steven Jones, MCM – 110.7 (33.7%/0.515/14.7%)
9. Trevon Malone, MC – 110.2 (33.6%/0.531/15.3%)
10. Ronnie Dodd, UO – 109.5 (32.7%/0.531/15.0%)
11. Brandon Irwin, HPU – 109.1 (27.7%/0.583/14.0%)
12. Travis Pflughaupt, SU – 107.5 (25.8%/0.573/13.5%)
13. Kyle Schleigh, UTD – 106.6 (23.8%/0.672/15.3%)
14. Colton Thompson, SRSU – 105.3 (31.8%/0.624/20.3%)
15. Darren Smith, SU – 103.6 (24.6%/0.605/15.2%)
ASC Scoring Top 15, Women
# Name, Team – SCR (Shot%/TS%/TO%)
1. Natosha Gottlieb, LC – 137.0 (28.3%/0.540/9.5%)
2. Roslyn Wilmer, LC – 129.3 (29.0%/0.520/10.8%)
3. Rebecca Valdez, TLU – 125.7 (33.0%/0.551/13.4%)
4. Dana Marrs, HPU – 125.0 (27.7%/0.492/10.9%)
5. Sabrina Goddard, UO – 123.9 (34.9%/0.483/13.3%)
6. Britani Gattis, HPU – 117.4 (20.2%/0.519/10.8%)
7. Jasmine Lewis, HSU – 114.1 (30.1%/0.535/15.7%)
8. Lyndsey Smith, UTD – 113.7 (30.9%/0.548/16.8%)
9. Alexis Popelar, HSU – 112.7 (27.7%/0.515/14.5%)
10. Caitlin Brown, MC – 109.7 (32.2%/0.438/15.9%)
11. Brandace Latin, ETBU – 109.3 (29.7%/0.466/15.5%)
12. Jamie Wilson, MCM – 108.5 (20.6%/0.486/12.4%)
13. Celeste Belizario, MCM – 107.3 (25.0%/0.496/14.8%)
14. Jasmin Thomas, HPU – 107.2 (24.7%/0.479/14.3%)
15. Krista Ford, SRSU – 107.2 (30.7%/0.514/18.8%)
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