This site first went online sometime during the 2015-16 season. The initial inspiration was from the season before, when I became annoyed by the meme that Virginia Basketball was "ugly" and "boring," because I knew we had some great highlights and that it is actually fun to play for Virginia. I wanted to make a highlight reel to show the dunks and three-point shots and other exciting plays our players had made, but it was just so tedious and cumbersome to assemble the game videos and other sources and pull the actual highlights out of them. Wouldn't it be cool if there were a highlights database I could just search? It would make it s much easier!
Fast forward to 2015 and a bitter message board debate about glue players and ways to identify them, and a related argument on the use of plus-minus stats to evaluate players. Frustrated by the lack of evidence in everybody's arguments and the widespread acceptance of the plus-minus metric, I wanted to have...