Her weighted play share is 20.3% after hovering around 15% for the past 3 seasons. Weirdly, she is not taking more shots or dishing out more assists this year. So that increase is coming from the non-scoring aspects of the game, caused turnovers, ground balls, etc.

But while she is not shooting more this year (7.3 shots / gm after 7.4 last year), she’s connecting at a much higher rate (63.6%). And her excess goal rate, which accounts for the likelihood of a random shooter making a given shot, is currently at career high levels (an extra goal every 8 shots),

In an interesting bit of trivia, the Irish offense was almost exactly as efficient in the first game (42.2%) and the second game (42.3%). You don’t see that every day.

The UCD offense is off to one of their best starts in years and you have to think that the production they are getting from Myers is a big part of it, especially since her role has expanded pretty steadily from her first year (just a 3.5% weighted play share)

The upshot is that she’s contributed a full 2 extra EGA per game this year for the Catamounts.

Mercer: 24.1%
UNC: 28.3%
JMU: 28.5%
Davidson: 29.7%
Vanderbilt: 30.6%

Just a slow steady march upwards. As the top share player for the Panthers, Britton has a lot of responsibility for the trend. Her .33 share-adjusted turnover rate is a career low through 6 games.

A big improvement area was in ball security. She had 10 turnovers in 4 games prior to this one, but against the Tribe, she didn’t register a TO.

Even after adjusting for that, Siena’s performance lands them in the No. 6 slot for opponent-adjusted offensive efficiency. While they may not end the year there, it’s the continuation of a growth trend for Siena overall. Here are their opponent-adjusted offensive efficiencies going back to 2017

’17: 25.6%
’18: 26.4%
’19: 30.9%
’20: 33.4%
’21 (through 1 game): 40.5%

Soures was great in this one and as the top share player on the team, she’ll be a big part of the answer to the above, whichever way it turns out.

In this one, she was left a bit freer, and Longwood paid the price. She scored on 63% of her 8 shots, adding 2 assists and 3 GBs.

You won’t be surprised to hear that in the 2 games where she has been able to fill up the stat sheet, the Tribe is 2-0. When she’s disappeared, they are 0-2. The defensive game-plan against William & Mary this year seems awfully simple.

The question is how it holds up against better defenses. Villanova is ranked 95th and CCSU is 98th. Coming up, the Seahawks have the 38th ranked defense (Bryant), the 35th ranked defense (MSM twice) and the 17th ranked defense (Merrimack twice), so they’ll certainly have a chance to see how their hot start holds up against better opponents.