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Why the Second Chance points doesn't appear at the regular stats sheets and which is its statistical analysis importance ?

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When a team shoots a high percentage from the floor, the number of second chance opportunities will distinctly be smaller, but  the efficiency of the second chance possession is not a function of the number of second chance opportunities in a game.

Consequently, if teams have higher efficiency during second chances than first chances, a team's game efficiency, taking all the different aspects into account, is nearly always increased only because the  offensive rebounding. By contrast, since that relationship appears alternating, the important  objective of collecting and evaluating data is in the bonus possessions produced by the net offensive rebounding differential.

A well balanced team would be more effective on second chance points than on first chance points because, on most first chance possessions, the defense is accomplished and the offensive team must attack the set defense to find their scoring opportunities. In whatever manner, with possessions that go on with an offensive rebound, the defense is often lacking order at the instant of the rebound, and these possessions often end with either a foul [the most effective method of scoring] or a tap-in or other relatively easy shot.

Only when the offensive team decides to withdraw the ball back out following an offensive rebound and run its half court offense would the defense have an opportunity to reset itself.

Concisely, to resume this post, teams obtain more easy scores in second chance possessions than in first chance possessions, so they must be registered and analyzed as it was explained and is included in the basketball Statistics Creative Analysis eBA System.

Jean Louis Trezeguet -   ebastats - the basketball statistics forum

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