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The Book of Basketball The NBA According to the Sports Guy by Bill Simmons with forewords by Malcolm Gladwell There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA... more to the point, he's the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off... From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens-and then closes, once and for all-every major pro basketball debate.

Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com's Sports Guy, is that writer. And The Book of Basketball is that book.
Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.

He takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons's one-of-a-kind, five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball.

And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.

Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game's finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.

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 • Author: Bill Simmons with forewords by Malcolm Gladwell
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Friday Press Clippings:
NBA dives headlong into new era of statistical analysis

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By John Schuhmann
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The league's owners watched a presentation of a new data warehouse tool called StatsCube, which the NBA has been developing over the last few years and which is now available to every team.

StatsCube has in it every point, rebound, assist, steal, block, turnover, missed shot, foul and substitution since the 1996-97 season, when play-by-play data first started being tracked courtside. The point in the game when each occurred, and what players were on the floor at the time, is recorded. Best of all, StatsCube can slice and dice the data so teams can analyze it instantaneously. ...."

"... Of course, there's still a limited amount of information available through play-by-play data. We know that Ray Allen made an 18-foot jumper and that Rajon Rondo passed him the ball, but we don't know if Allen was wide open or closely guarded. Did Vince Carter get caught up in a Kendrick Perkins screen, or was he helping out on a Kevin Garnett roll to the basket? And was Jameer Nelson putting enough pressure on Rondo up top? ..."

"... "Data is great," said Barr. "It's very powerful and the value that teams get out of it is growing, but at the end of the day, professional coaches, scouts and GMs want to see the video to verify that what the stats seem to be telling them is really telling them.

You want to do that final verification to make sure that your conclusions are valid." ..."

"... In the end, the best way to gain knowledge about players and teams is to combine every tool available. Coaches -- or fans -- might start at basketball-reference.com to determine if a team is strong or weak on either side of the ball.

They can then go to 82games.com to quickly see if they're better or worse with a particular player on the floor. Teams can run a query through StatsCube. And then they can check out the video on Synergy Sports. ..."

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Points per Field Goal Attempt Formula: Concept & Application

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What causes a ball to be Out of Bounds ? - Rule & Statistics...

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101 Basketball Out-of-Bounds Drills By George Karl This edition is an amazing collection of 101 out-of-bounds drills from coaching legend George Karl. Ideal for coaches of players of all skill levels. Covers box sets, stack sets, diamond sets, baseline sets, random sets, side-outs, and more. Over 200 diagrams make the drills easy to learn and use.

Coaching legend George Karl is in the top 20 of winningest coaches in NBA history, and is in the top five of winning percentages for active NBA coaches.

Karl has coached for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Seattle Super Sonics, and the Milwaukee Bucks.

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About the Use of Statistics and the Statistical Analysis of Basketball

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eBA 2009 Best Basketball Clip Candidate

' Kobe Bryant's Broken Ankles... !

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Friday Press Clippings: About Basketball Statistics and Officials

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"... Total fouls called are down vs.  each year, with an average of 46.47 in total fouls being called per game ( compared to 48.17 last year ).

The average number of calls by the 3 veteran officials who call the most total fouls is about 51, with the high being his crews calling 52.07 fouls per game. On the low side,  the average of veteran officials who call the least fouls is about 42.5 for their crews.

Suggesting a variance in foul calls between certain veteran officials can run approximately 18 pct from game to game.

The average number of travels called this year is 2.49. This compares to 2.1 at the end of last year. The variance between high and low, is 4.17 for one veteran officials crews and 1.44 for another veteran officials crew. Meaning that the highest officials’ crews will call traveling almost 3x as often as the official whose crews call it the least.

Defensive 3 seconds is called on average .89 times per game this year, vs. .59 times per game this time last year. The average number of calls by the 3 veteran officials who call def 3 the most is 1.7x per game. The least, 0.55x per game, or a factor of about 3.

Offensive fouls are called on average 4.6 times per game, compared to 5.16 times per game last year. The average number of calls by the 3 vet officials crews who call it the most is about  6 per game. The average for the 3 officials’ crews that call it the least is 3.3. 

Last year for offensive fouls, the average number of calls by the 3 veteran officials who call offensive fouls the most is 7 per game. The least, 3.6 per game.

There are .609 techs called per game this year compared to .724 per game last year.  The top and bottom averages are about 1.1 per game vs. .25 per game.

Last by not least, is offensive 3 seconds. There are .70 called per game  vs. .794 called per game last year and .552 the year before. This year the top and bottom averages are about 1.25 per game vs. 0.25 game, or about a 500 pct variance.

As you can see, different officials use their professional judgment differently, which is exactly what you would expect. ..."

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Basketball Game Analyst or Scientific Analyst of the Regressions Type... ?

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Drazen Petrovic and Nikos Galis wrote this chapter in the Basketball History !
The Eurobasket 1987 Semi-final - Greece ~ Yugoslavia...

This video is concentrating to the attacking performances of two legends of the european basketball, Drazen Petrovic and Nikos Galis, in the semi-final game for the 1987 European basketball championships.
Greece rarely won against Yugoslavia but this is one of those rare games: Greece won 81-77 and progressed to the final of the Eurobasket of 1987. Galis scored 30 points while Petrovic scored 22 !

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Ball against the Backboard... Can this player begin a dribble.... ?

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Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man? is the most personal and important book Charles Barkley has written. Charles Barkley lays himself open here, and because he does, he brings the same straight talk out of everyonehttp://www.ebablogs.com/rsc/img/blank.gif with whom he engages in his journey around America to talk about the things that matter most and are the hardest to say - things having to do with race, and money, and identity.

Why is it that we can talk about all sorts of big issues, but when the subject of race is raised, we all freeze up ?

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Charles Barkley - 1991-92: his last season with the 76ers

Charles Barkley was a great Basketball player who was never afraid to speak his mind on any number of topics. In this book, he attempts to discuss the controversial issue of race in America by interviewing 13 prominent men and women from an assortment of fields. Sports columnist and TV host Michael Wilbon (Washington Post, ESPN) has acted as editor.

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About the Possession Scoring Record System Concept

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' The World's Superathletes... '

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Friday Press Clippings:
Player Analysis through Advanced Statistics

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"... This isn't meant to take the place of actually watching games. I don't feel any player can be properly evaluated solely by their statistics, but when making an argument about whether a guy is a chucker or a scorer, there are simple measures that can objectively show which one of those is true. ..."

"... The most additional possessions one team can have vs their opponent in a game is one. If they get the starting possession and the ending one. Whether you win or not depends whether you score more points on your possessions.

I know this is obvious, but it's important. It should drive home the point that it's not how many points your team scores or holds the other team down to. It's how efficient you score yoru points or how inefficient you make your opponent...."

"... In my final precursor, let's talk about per minute statistics vs per game statistics. I used to not be a believe in per minute stats until someone put it to me this way.

If player A played 30 minutes in game 1 and scored 20 points and put up 10 rebounds, and his backup player B played 15 minutes in game 1 and 15 and game 2 and scored 20 points and grabbed 10 boards then they both played 30 minutes and had 20/10 over that stretch. ..."

"... I think my primary fault with PER is that, in my opinion, it may overvalue rebounders and usage a bit too much.

Reboundign is important, but the problem is rebounding is based so much on scheme. It's my feeling that there are far more uncontested rebounds than uncontested dunks in the game of basketball.

Thus players who play in the right system at the right possession collect more free rebounds than anyone else is able to collect free shots or other statistics. ..."

"... There are two primary flaws for TS%. First, it doesn't factor in turnovers, so a guy who throws the ball away like crazy will have an inflated TS% relative to his real offensive efficiency.

There's some good and some bad in that, because a PG who handles the ball shouldn't have his scoring ability taken away from turnovers generated trying to pass the ball. However, a guy who's making turnovers while trying to score should. ..."

"... For example, Michael Jordan had a huge usage rate, and that's a good thing for him. He's a dominant player and the team was helped by him taking 1/3rd of his teams possessions over his career.

Zach Randolph also has a high usage rate, and that's not such a good thing for his team, because Zach Randolph doesn't have a great TS%. His career average hovers around the league averaeg of 51-52%. ..."

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The Basketball Personal Fouls eBA Analysis

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Euroleague is Opening Tomorrow ! Top 10 Plays from 2009 Final Four

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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions
Bad Dribble - It's Turnover... but is it a Steal ?

"... A1 is dribbling when he deal with the ball inefficiently and it bounces toward B2, how we register this play ? Steal from B2 ...? but he was not the " the initiator of the action causing the turnover"... ! ..."

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Fundamentals of the Statistical Registration=
To earn a steal, the defensive player should be the initiator of the action causing the turnover, not just the benefactor.

For NCCA and FIBA the steal should be a take-away, not just a recovery and not just a forced error.

For us, according to our eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System, the "forced error" concept is different at all. See: eBA CLINICS ONLINE.

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A1 is charged with a turnover, and meanwhile NCAA & FIBA do not credit B2 with a steal as he did not initiate the action, I suggest the following:
analyze the action by means the game video-tape and credit B2 with a steal if there was although a minimal action of the player as the cause of the turnover, on the contrary a "team steal" will be registered.

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Basketball Statistician Digest:
Out-of-context ~ The Excessive Reliance on Statistics

"...In many ways, the excessive reliance on stats to assess Basketball performances is the sports-related counterpart to that gloomy analysis.

Stats dissolve all the passion, energy and dynamics of each game in abstract, numeric quantities that could easily lead one to believe that every game is just like the other.

Recent attempts to put together comprehensive statistical indexes capable of "objectively" measuring players and teams performances - to the point where we could simply check the numbers and dispense with the game themselves - are the paroxysm of Basketball positivism.

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The multifaceted, rich aspects that constitute the very essence of Basketball are set aside in the name of an irrational belief in an abstract formula.

Usually the perpetrators of such heresies are guys who smugly claim that their stats clearly rebuke .

At its worst, statistical analysis of pro sports degenerate into a set of foolish statements that are at best extremely dubious and yet are treated as "scientific claims".

Grown men who should really know better dish out atrocious claims such as "Rodman produced more wins that Michael Jordan"...."

A polemical opinion of Pedro a Brazilian journalist in his blog posterized

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About the Basketball Most Useful Statistics and the Best Indicators of Success

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2009 eBA Best Basketball Clip Candidate

' Gilbert Arenas and Rainn Wilson are ready for 2010... '

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Basketball Statistician's Digest:
A Starting Point for Analyzing Basketball Statistics

From The Berkeley Electronic Press
By Justin Kubatko, Dean Oliver, Kevin Pelton, y Dan T. Rosenbaum
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ABSTRACT:
The quantitative analysis of sports is a growing branch of science and, in many ways one that has developed through non-academic and non-traditionally peer-reviewed work.

The aim of this paper is to bring to a peer-reviewed journal the generally accepted basics of the analysis of basketball, thereby providing a common starting point for future research in basketball.

The possession concept, in particular the concept of equal possessions for opponents in a game, is central to basketball analysis. Estimates of possessions have existed for approximately two decades, but the various formulas have sometimes created confusion.

We hope that by showing how most previous formulas are special cases of our more general formulation, we shed light on the relationship between possessions and various statistics.

Also, we hope that our new estimates can provide a common basis for future possession estimation. In addition to listing data sources for statistical research on basketball, we also discuss other concepts and methods, including offensive and defensive ratings, plays, per-minute statistics, pace adjustments, true shooting percentage, effective field goal percentage, rebound rates, Four Factors, plus/minus statistics, counterpart statistics, linear weights metrics, individual possession usage, individual efficiency, Pythagorean method, and Bell Curve method.

This list is not an exhaustive list of methodologies used in the field, but we believe that they provide a set of tools that fit within the possession framework and form the basis of common conversations on statistical research in basketball.

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About the Home Teams Victories Percentage Analysis

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NBA Basketball 2009/10: Welcome Back to the Basketball Show !

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Basketball Statistician's Digest: Statistics Box Score Balance Error

"... We know that a properly completed box score should balance. The sum of the total number of individual, team and dead-ball rebounds for both teams should equal the total number of missed shots ( field and free ) for both teams.
What the statistician must do if the box score does not balance and the mistake cannot be found ? ..."

As you says a properly completed box score should be balanced. To make this determination, the statistician should add the total number of individual, team and dead-ball rebounds for both teams. This number should equal the total number of missed shots ( field and free ) for both teams.

A better balance can be achieved if rebounds are kept according to whether they are 'offensive' or 'defensive' rebounds. This must include both team and dead-ball rebounds. In this case, the sum of Team A’s offensive rebounds and Team B’s defensive rebounds must equal the total number of missed shots by Team A. Also, the sum of Team B’s offensive rebounds and Team A’s defensive rebounds must equal the number of
missed shots by Team B.

Neither check guarantees that there are no mistakes, but they do indicate that mistakes are unlikely. If the box score does not balance and the mistake cannot be found, the
eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System propose the following steps which may help:

1.- Check the dead-ball rebounds. Look at the number of two-shot fouls where the first FTA was missed.

2.- Check the team rebounds. Think about whether either team was awarded the ball for a throw-in when the ball went out of bounds after a shot.

3.- If you are working with live stats, if there was a feeling during the game that an individual should have been credited with another rebound, see if that will help. With the eBA System of Post Game Video Analysis, you'll have not this problem.

4.- Go back and decide whether another dead-ball rebound should be added.

5.- If the feeling is that the error is in the individual or team rebounds but there is no idea about which one or about which player, consider adjusting the team rebounds.

These suggestions are good if you are working with live stats and also can be used if there are too many rebounds.
And look for perfection, as we work with our eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System.

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At NAYSI.com, one of our eBA recommended Sites we can read this ABC's of Coaching and Parenting Kids Through Sports, by Jack Hutslar :

Opportunities for adults to have a positive influence on children may consume only a few hours per week in a coaching environment. This is not much in comparison to the time that parents and teachers have to influence their children to do all of the right things.
Yet, coaches are among the more influential people in the lives of children.

These ABC’s identify some of the more important traits or principles that guide us in shaping our children into proper adults through sport.
Review these selections that follow. Help your children, your students, and your players develop a better understanding of the big picture.

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T is for Teach. Coaches and parents can teach the fundamental skills and strategies of any sport to their offspring.
In most cases, youngsters are able to learn what they are taught.

This applies to sport, homework, manners, chores and responsibility. Yelling and screaming at their mistakes contributes little to their acquisition of skills.

Mistakes offer teachable opportunities. Determine what they need to know and teach it to them. Break it down into smaller bites, explain it or show them what to do. Then pat them on the back when they get it and when they show good effort.

Time. The best thing to spend on your child is time. This very simple concept is at the heart of teaching and learning, not to mention good relationships between parents, children and other significant adults.

The time that coaches and teachers spend with your child is a reason why that these non-family members are so well thought of by young players. ... Read more...

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Some reflexions about the 24 Seconds Statistics

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Basketball Statistician's Digest:
What do we even mean by basketball "advanced stats"?

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"... Interest in and use of advanced stats has made a great deal of progress in both NBA fandom and in NBA organizations over the last decade. It is, however, hard to pin down where the two intersect. This is mostly because there is a culture of secrecy surrounding organizations' use of statistics.

Teams have funded development of new data and of new ways of looking at old data, but, rather than publicizing what they find, they have (understandably) sought competitive advantage by keeping their findings private and proprietary. They are essentially trade secrets..."

"... I think, at this point, "advanced stats" can mean a lot of things to different people.*** Most basically, it seems to refer to anything other than the traditional box score stats. I think of this broad range as generally falling within several major categories on the current basketball landscape:

(1) stats that are themselves byproducts of or new ways of looking at conventional, box score numbers (let's call these "composites" and "situational stats");
(2) player "stats" that require the collection and presentation of game data beyond that previously collected ("expanded stats");
(3) stats that are based on the team outcomes of what happens on the floor while individual or groups of players are on the floor ("the plus/minus family"); and
(4) a catch-all of the murky universe of other observational stats ("designer stats"). ..."

"... Related to the composites are "situational stats," which are perhaps still the things you're most likely to encounter in an NBA game broadcast.

These can get silly fast, as they are the basketball equivalent of the good old baseball "batting average in day game late inning situations after striking out earlier in the game" obscurisms. I don't mean to dismiss them entirely.

It can undoubtedly be interesting to know how players really fare on meaningful, game ending possessions, and you can find other examples like that. I have my doubts about whether front offices are using this group, but one never knows about coaches. ..."

"... Expanded stats: Calling these "advanced stats" is in some sense a reach, as many coaches have for a long time tracked their players' performance in areas beyond the box score.
These can be things as basic as tracking "hustle plays," or "hockey assists," etc. They also might include things like "rotations made/missed" or "FG attempts defensed," or any other player-specific action that you can think to keep tally of. ..."

"... I'm probably throwing far too many things into this bucket and maybe I'll need to revisit and create more categories, but, for today's purposes, I'm using this to capture every other application of quantification or statistical analysis that doesn't fit in the above categories.

Everything from Flip's tracking of the outcomes of individual pages from his playbook, to Mark Cuban's charting of the refs, to studies of whether the "hot hand" really exists, can all go here.

Basically, if there is a question you can think to ask about player or team performance or game outcomes, there are ways you can (at least try to) frame it in terms answerable by observation and statistical analysis. This has probably been the biggest breakthrough of numbers into the NBA. ..."

"... Curiously, in baseball it seems the other way around--that advanced (different from situational) stats have been embraced by front offices (in picking players) more than managerial offices (in modifying strategy). Given the difficulties in overhauling NBA rosters compared with MLB rosters, thanks to the small drafts, shallow player pools, and salary cap, it is not surprising that an NBA coach might find more immediate use for creative stats on a day-to-day basis than would an NBA GM. ..."

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October Cover ~ Basketball Beautiful Faces:
EuroLeague 2010 Maccabi Dance Group !

Photograph: Ohad Redlich Gallery

Our Basketball Beautiful Faces of October 2009 Cover
from the excellent Cheerleaders Gallery by Ohad Redlich

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Basketball Statistician's Digest: September Case Study Conclusion

"... When a player commits an offensive foul but he's still able to make the basket ?
When is forced turnover and when is unforced ?
What is the statistical registration according to the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System? ..."

An offensive foul in a Photograph from Commonwealth Times

Conclusion:
eBA Basketball Statistical Registration:
If a shooter has the ball, then makes illegal contact with the defender, a charging foul, and then releases the ball,the basket if made does not counts. This concept includes ALL basketball rules and leagues.

The so called "airborne shooter" rule have been experimented by US rules, and currently NBA, WNBA and NCAA use this rule, which extends the time period of offensive player control until an airborne shooter returns to the ground after releasing the shot.

In NCAA Men's rules and FIBA, if a shooter charges an opponent after releasing the ball, the basket, if made, shall count.
If the charge is "caused" by the defender's position and action, the turnover is charged to the shooter as a "forced" one, so the steal registered to the defender. In all the other cases, in which the foul is caused by a push or a wrong action of the shooter without real intervention of the defender, the turnover charged to the shooter and the steal registered to the defender are "unforced".

Among others, this case of statistical register is being studied and analyzed in the current Basketball Creative Analysis Seminar at eBA ONLINE.

This Case Study was presented on September 2, 2009 in our eBA Portal: were sent 823 answers, and 32 totally right, that's means including all the registrations.

This topic is resumed in the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System
at the eBA Encyclopedia > eBA System

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