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Princeton tactic description is incorrect

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From: wozzvt

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220216.15 in reply to 220216.13
Date: 7/4/2012 8:39:48 AM
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Seeing as you have this data I would love to hear the truth about just how slow the pace of it is. There is a lot of debate about what is the slowest tactic with some saying the order is motion, low post, Princeton and patient being the slowest but others disagree.

We're moving kind of beyond the scope of this thread, but briefly... you don't actually need shot distribution data for this, just boxscores, which are available through the bbapi. Which means you can base it on far more data than what I referred to above. When I ran those numbers a while ago, it looked like:

An average possession in Base lasts 15.1 seconds.

Patient/LP/Princeton increased this by ~9%. (longer possessions = fewer possessions)
LI/Motion increased it by ~4%.
RnG shortened it by ~3%.
Push was basically identical.

That LI was slower than base, and essentially equivalent to motion, always sort of surprised me. but this data is very old (definitely pre-season 15, maybe much earlier)... if some enterprising bbapi user wants to run more recent numbers to decide whether *that* should also have a bug thread, feel free.

From: yodabig

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220216.16 in reply to 220216.15
Date: 7/5/2012 6:25:44 AM
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Thanks that is already incredibly interesting and goes against 100% of "conventional wisdom" which says LI is a fast tactic. I know this is off topic again but do you have the breakdown of the frequency of use of each offence?

I know they are "easily available through bbapi" but having no idea what that is or how to use it is a bit of an issue for a noob like me.