Surprising Statistics - Assist/Turnover Ratio

[megablue]

Amari Williams is the highest-ranked Kentucky player among the Top 350 in Assist/Turnover Ratio.
He is rated 324th at 1.29 and is the only Kentucky player in the Top 350 in this category.
However, Kentucky is ranked 18th at 1.57 in the Top 355 !!
This suggests to me that our ratio is very good overall as a TEAM ... which is impressive !!

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[JRCAT14]

Amari Williams is the highest-ranked Kentucky player among the Top 350 in Assist/Turnover Ratio.
He is rated 324th at 1.29 and is the only Kentucky player in the Top 350 in this category.
However, Kentucky is ranked 18th at 1.57 in the Top 355.
This suggests to me that our ratio is very good overall as a TEAM ... which is impressive !!

NCAA College Men's Basketball DI current team Stats | NCAA.com

Discover the current NCAA Division I Men's Basketball leaders in every stats category, as well as historic leaders.

www.ncaa.com

How can the team ratio be better the the best individual assist/turnover ratio?

 

[JonathanW]

Assist/TO ratio to me isn't the best statistic.
IMO, a better statistic is Steal/TO ratio, how often do you take the ball away vs give it away.

But I've kept season stats for UK the past 25 years on spreadsheets.
Earlier in the year, we had 5 guys whose Ast/TO ratio range from 3.2-5. They were the highest 4 over those past 25 years, and 5 of the highest 8, and Williams wasn't one of those at the time.
I just noticed though that Williams is NOT currently the highest (or close to it) UK player this season.

2.77 Brea
2.14 Almonor (but both are small totals)
2.11 Butler
2.08 Carr
1.86 Robinson
1.61 Garrison
1.27 Williams
1.23 Oweh
3.78 Kriisa (but season ended early with most of his games vs cupcakes)

 

[JonathanW]

How can the team ratio be better the the best individual assist/turnover ratio?

Because it is a mistake. Or they have minimal prerequisite like must average >3 ast/gm.

 

[WallMashKyBall]

Because Carr has a pretty good Ast to turnover ratio for a big, maybe we should have seen more of him as the point big at the top of the key. Williams makes 3 good passes for every 2 bad passes.

 

[megablue]

How can the team ratio be better the the best individual assist/turnover ratio?

It appears that the NCAA statistics has a minimum numbers to make the list ... see my team schedule below.

 

[JonathanW]

Because Carr has a pretty good Ast to turnover ratio for a big, maybe we should have seen more of him as the point big at the top of the key. Williams makes 3 good passes for every 2 bad passes.

True. But the benefit of putting Williams in that spot is that Carr is one of the guys who can spot up for a open 3. Williams can't do that. Meaning Williams has 4 shooters he can pass to, but Carr would only have 3 shooters (& 1 post guy). I'm not saying it's wrong to do that, just different.

 

[megablue]

	A	TO	A/T
Horn	1	0
Kriisa	34	9	3.78
Brea	36	13	2.77
Almonor	15	7	2.14
Butler	99	47	2.11
Carr	50	25	2.00
Robinson	41	22	1.86
Garrison	58	35	1.66
Williams	94	73	1.29
Oweh	48	39	1.23
Noah	6	6	1.00
Chandler	17	19	0.89
Perry	15	17	0.88
Team		15
	514	327	1.57

 

[JonathanW]

Because Carr has a pretty good Ast to turnover ratio for a big, maybe we should have seen more of him as the point big at the top of the key. Williams makes 3 good passes for every 2 bad passes.

Yes, but Butler has more assists than Williams (99 to 94 total, & 4.5 vs 3.1 per game) and a better ratio (2.11 to 1.27).