Episode 311: Bill Dettering and Mike Murphy, Hoopsalytics Unleashed

Guest: Bill Dettering and Mike Murphy, Hoopsalytics Founders

In this week's coaching conversation, Hoopsalytics founders Bill Dettering and Mike Murphy join the Basketball Podcast to share insights on Basketball Stats and Analytics Systems Designed for Coaches.

Bill Dettering developed and conceived Hoopsalytics with co-founder Mike Murphy. Hoopsalytics brings the most powerful analytics to teams of all levels. It is a Next Generation Basketball Stats and Analytics System Designed by Coaches, for Coaches.

Bill Dettering is currently the Girls Varsity Coach at Truckee High School, and is in his 12th season as a basketball coach at various levels. He played college basketball at Swarthmore College. He is a lifelong software designer and entrepreneur, previously founding Zingtree and has started and run six companies - all powered by data-driven decision making.

Mike Murphy is the current Head Coach of the freshmen/sophomore basketball team at Urban High School in San Francisco. He played college basketball at UNC-Greensboro and Catholic University.

Bill and Mike met as they played together in a San Francisco area men's leagues, which led to them connecting and building Hoopsalytics together.

Breakdown

1:00 - Affordable Things

4:00 - Evaluating Defensive Performance

7:30 - Evaluating 5 Player Lineups

11:00 - Tracking Player Moves

14:00 - Why Paint Touches is Subjective

15:30 - Evaluating Sets and Actions

18:30 - Lineup Analysis

20:00 - Shot Tracking

26:00 - Work in Practice

28:00 - Game Decisions