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UDM Improvement ’13: Faceoffs

This post might feel familiar: I made a similar one last summer. To sum up that article, I figured the Titans would perform a bit better on faceoffs in 2012 than they did in 2011, though that was more based … Continue reading

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2012 Detroit Preview: Special Teams

For this portion of your preview, I’m mostly going to focus on the possession game: faceoffs, ride, and clear. Since it’s not really enough for its own section, I’m going to lump in penalties and man-up/man-down at the end. We’ve … Continue reading

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UDM Improvement ’12: Faceoffs

In many games last year, it seemed like a poor performance on faceoffs helped snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for the Titans (for example, they were more efficient than Marist, but a poor faceoff performance helped lead to … Continue reading

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Individual Faceoff Improvement

This post was a lot more work than it’s ultimately going to be worth, I think. I decided to take a look at every player who took faceoffs in Division-1 lacrosse last year, in order to see a few things: … Continue reading

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