ThePossessionReport
A postgame report that breaks the game down possession by possession — showing you where the game was won, where it was lost, and what to fix next. Built for coaches, athletes, and scouts. Powered by PBiR, the engine under the hood.
We don’t deal in opinions.
We deal in possessions.
Every player and every team is measured on one thing — what they did with the possessions and the minutes they had. Not reputation. Not the eye test. Not who’s on the poster.
So yes — a household name can land near the bottom, and a role player can top the chart. We’re not ranking talent or hype. We’re measuring what happened on the floor, possession by possession. The numbers fall where they fall — and the data don’t lie.
Where the game
gets studied.
Coaches, staffs, and players don’t need more numbers — they need the right ones, possession by possession. That’s the report.
We look at the game differently.
Points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks — that’s the easy part. Anybody can hand you a traditional box score. The hard part is going past it — and letting the data speak to what really happened during the game.
Possession breakdown
Every trip becomes evidence — makes, turnovers, empty possessions, second chances, late-game execution.
PBiR impact
The Playback Index Rating grades the actions that matter — not just the numbers that reach the box score.
Kill-shot runs
Find the run, find the reason. See when control changed hands — and who stopped the bleeding.
What to fix next
Every report ends with direction — what to emphasize, who to target, what must improve before the next game.
Made for the people who live in the film room.
Coaches & staffs
Walk into the next practice knowing exactly where the game turned — and what to fix before tip-off.
Players & teams
See your real impact — the PBiR number that rewards the winning plays, not just the loud ones.
Scouts & front offices
Evaluate on possessions, not box scores — with a Certified PBiR Data Score on every report.
The number sees what the box score misses.
PBiR stands for Playback Index Rating. Every play is logged, replayed, graded, and added into a running impact score. We don’t make the facts — we report them.
The point weights stay proprietary. The logic stays simple: good actions lift the number, empty actions drag it down, winning actions separate.
Efficiency Thermometer — PBiR per minute
What’s the Heat Range?
We don’t just hand you numbers — we take the game’s temperature. Every statistical category is measured, then color-graded so you see at a glance who ran hot and who ran cold. Green means a player moved the game forward. Red means they gave it back. No box score to decode, no math to chase — the color is the verdict.
The Possession Report tells you why.That’s the difference between statistics and basketball intelligence.
Two packages. The whole season.
Every report is delivered as a print-clean PDF plus The Coaches Report — the audio version, read back in a coach’s voice — sent the same night your game ends.
Game Recap
- Postgame Possession Report on every game — all 40
- Quarter Kings & the Efficiency Thermometer
- Possession efficiency — team & every player
- Print-clean PDF + The Coaches Report — the audio version, in a coach’s voice
- Delivered about 2 hours after the final buzzer
👁 See a real Game Recap →Recap + Scouting
- Everything in Game Recap, all 40 games
- Plus a Scouting Report on your next opponent — 40 games
- Two reports every game night: the recap, then the scout
- Both come with The Coaches Report — the audio version of each
- Recap ~2 hrs after the buzzer · scout follows ~2 hrs later
👁 See a real Scouting Report →Built by a coach. For coaches.
The box score tells you what happened. The Possession Report tells you why.
The mission
Every staff deserves film-room intelligence on every possession — not just a stat line. We turn the official play-by-play of any game into a clear, print-clean story of where it was won, where it was lost, and what to fix next.
The engine
It runs on PBiR — the Playback Index Rating. We log every possession and grade 15 universal basketball events to measure each player’s and team’s true impact, then layer on possession efficiency and the Efficiency Thermometer. The number doesn’t lie.
Who built it
The Possession Report was founded and built by Herman Johnson Jr. — a New Jersey basketball lifer. He spent three years at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City under Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley, three years at St. Patrick’s in Elizabeth under Kevin Boyle, and seven seasons as head coach at Northern Burlington County Regional High School in Columbus, New Jersey — where he coached his son Jayson Johnson, now a marketing manager with New Balance. He also coached with SportsU, one of the top AAU programs in New Jersey and the country. He’s the father of Matt Johnson — a two-time national champion at UConn, who coached a season at Princeton and is now an assistant coach at Boston College. He built PBiR to put real possession-level intelligence in every coach’s hands.
The PBiR argument, in Coach Johnson’s own words.
Why we measure efficiency — possession by possession — and what it means for your program. Press play.
Forty‑two truths the box score never tells you.
The PBiR way of seeing the game — in Coach Johnson’s own words. Press play.
Tell us what you want to see.
Outside of our season packages, we can build any report, for any reason. If your question is about a player, a matchup, or a stretch of games — PBiR can answer it.
- ▸ A statistical breakdown of any single game
- ▸ A PBiR report on an individual player
- ▸ A player’s full season — or just in‑conference or out‑of‑conference
- ▸ Head‑to‑head: one player against another
- ▸ An NIL valuation report
- ▸ Your player vs. the top 10 at his position in a conference — with a PBiR score on where he stacks up
Custom report pricing: To Be Determined.