Check out all the team defensive stats I
have summarized.
NOTE: In this and the offensive post, when I refer to "offense" or
"defense", I mean the team that is put out there when receiving or
pulling, respectively. "Offensive defense" refers to when a team
receives and turns it over, how good their defense is.
Their defense was pretty good, too, statistically again perhaps the
best. Some high points:
- First in overall efficiency (31.8%, average 42.5%).
- Second in preventing the other team from scoring that
point. When they started the point on defense, they scored
that point over half the time (39.0% average) (Double also scored over
half the time).
- Forced the most multiple turnover points (19).
- Were second best at stopping the score immediately off the pull.
- Their ability to score once they got a turnover was only slightly
above average. They and Cornell were the only teams to have their
offense outperform their defense both offensively and defensively.
On average, teams efficiencies were 8 percentage points higher after a
turnover than off the pull (39% off the pull, 47% after a turnover),
so the defensive squad should have better percentages than the
offensive squad. This makes sense since the defensive outfit gets the
disc in good field position more frequently. However, Cojones and
Cornell both went against this trend. (Cornell, incidentally, in
their four big losses, put defense out 36 times, and scored only
twice). For both these teams, this would suggest that they try
different substitution schemes to get more offensively minded players
into the defensive outfit.
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