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I used to coach at an amateur basketball level, and back then we only looked at points, rebounds, assists, the basic stuff. But once I got exposed to how deep cricket analytics goes, I started looking at things like sequences of plays, fatigue over different quarters, and how spacing on the court resembled field placement in cricket. At first the players thought it was overkill, but then they started noticing patterns in how opponents rotated and where they left gaps. That’s when they realized numbers can actually help simplify decisions instead of making things more complicated. I think the trick is not to overwhelm with every possible stat, but to find the one or two key measures that really affect outcomes. For basketball it was spacing and defensive rotations. For football it might be expected goals or distance covered per position. If you want a solid read that helped me connect the dots, I’d suggest this article: https://www.newznew.com/applying-cricket-analytics-to-football-and-basketball/. It goes into how concepts can cross from one sport to another and that’s exactly what made me try it out in practice. Ever since then I’ve been convinced that taking ideas from outside your own game makes you see things you’d otherwise miss.