Well maybe not everything Just came across this incredible blackhole of time-wasting links re: advances in sports analytics as they apply to basketball. Almost all of the work here is NBA-centric, but many of the general ideas and principles being forwarded hold true at a fundamental level and are relevant to college ball. http://www.metafilter.com/114881/Everything-we-know-about-basketball-is-a-lot Also, shout out to The Classical, a fantastic crowd-funded sports writing website that offers interesting, highbrow commentary on all things sports. This is a great exposition on Alagappan's winning presentation at the 2012 MIT Sloan conference on analytics: http://theclassical.org/articles/about-that-map-of-positions