Analytics start with a record you can trust.
At the top of the game, every possession is logged and every lineup is measured. In most high school and club gyms, the record is still a paper book with points and fouls in it. The questions coaches ask are the same at every level. The data to answer them is not.
What the book cannot tell you
A scorebook is built to settle the score and track fouls, and it does that well. It was never meant to answer how your team plays. By the time anyone tries to rebuild those answers from memory or film, the detail that mattered is gone.
- Who was on the floor when the lead slipped
- How many possessions a run actually took
- Whether a hot shooting night was efficient or just busy
- Which lineup your plus/minus says to start
An analysis is only as good as the game it reads.
Derived, never typed
Every figure is folded out of one log of what happened. Nobody keeps a running total that can drift from the play-by-play, so the box score, the minutes and the ratings cannot disagree.
Corrections leave a trail
Fixing a mis-tap appends a correction and recomputes everything downstream. The record shows what was changed, instead of a number that is quietly different from yesterday.
Nothing where there is nothing
A player who has not shot has no shooting percentage, not 0.0%. A rating that needs possessions waits for enough of them. An empty cell is honest; a zero is an accusation.
The numbers a staff of analysts would give you.
The formulas are the published ones the game already uses, computed from what your statistician records at the table. Nothing extra has to be tracked to get them.
- Box score and play-by-play, for both teams if you track both
- Minutes and plus/minus from every substitution
- Effective field goal and true shooting percentage
- The four factors: shooting, turnovers, rebounding, free throws
- Offensive and defensive rating per player
- First-half and second-half splits
- Season totals and per-game averages across every tracked game
Built for the person at the scorer’s table.
The tools that made analytics normal at the top level were built for programs with video coordinators and analysts. A high school or AAU program has a head coach, an assistant, and whoever agreed to keep the book.
StatTable is built for that person: fast enough to keep up with live play, forgiving of a mis-tap, and working in any gym whether or not the wifi does. The analysis comes out of the record they were already keeping.