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These are the two teams that are currently listed as Very Good for strong defense: Humboldt State and Francis Marion.

Note that Humboldt is not nearly as good in FG% and may be on the verge of falling back to Good. Note also that the rebound differential and the turnover differential are both at least 10.0. I wonder if these factor into the strong defense equation. Blocked shots and steals for both of these teams are positive, but not overwhelming. These are both break/press teams.

The metric used is opponents’ points per possession, so rebounds and turnovers influence it that way. As far as I know, their influence is limited to how they function in that calculation, and have no stand-alone effect.

Francis Marion is scoring an impressive 75.64% while Humboldt State is over 80% (anything under 82% will score VG for preference).

Thanks Buddha!

FYI - for those not familiar - it's actually not a %. I think Buddha had a typo.

It's points per 100 possessions. So you'd be giving up 75.64 points per 100 possessions or 0.75 points per possession.

Also, there are two commonly used formulas - either 0.475 * FTA or 0.44 * FTA. I use 0.475 but I'm not sure which one Seble chose to use.

I just use % as I like to view it that way (as opposed to just .7564 or 75.64).

I have been using 0.44 but I don't think it really matters that much as long as I'm consistent and marking where the boundaries are using the same formula.

So using 0.44 i see the defense preference transitions at 82 but if we switched to 0.475 maybe it switches at 82.23 instead.