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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
Which team controls the game's pace ?
Which team controls the pace of the game ?
For instance, if Team A (90.6 poss/g) and Team B (96.7 poss/g) played, which team would control the pace ? As might be expected it would be somewhere in the middle (93.7 poss/g) or could one team give direction to the pace involving only main features ? By the way, which team has had the advantage of controlling the pace... the drudgery team or the up-tempo team?
Can a team to use pace as a strategic advantage ?
About the "Game Pace" factor:
The "Game Pace" is a factor which takes into account the fact that some teams play at a faster pace than others, and therefore individual statistics may be padded for players on those teams that do play at a faster pace.
Pace factor is an estimate of the number of possessions per 48 or 40 minutes by a team and its opponents.
It is calculated as follows:
Finally, writing 'pace factor' in the 'Search' option you can reach to all my previous posts about this thematic.
Prof. Roberto Azar
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Life and Sports Motivational Videos:
The Bumblebee Can't Fly... but...
According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumblebee can't fly, but he doesn't know it, so he flies anyway. This sums up my experiences as an inventor. I did not have the technical background in any of the fields I contributed inventions to. I didn't know what wouldn't "fly."
"... Charlie surprises you; out of this bright, articulate person comes these thoughtful, sweet, sharp, and whimsical thoughts. Charlie's mind comes to you from all directions and leaves you in a surprised state. I enjoy my visits with Charlie because I always come away with new thoughts and new inspirations. I urge all of you to sample his thoughts, and by all means, read the book! ..."
Joe Barbera Producer, writer, artist CEO and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
"... What do you get when you combine Aristotle, Trump, Edison, and Henny Youngman? You get Mr. Charles Butland! He is someone who truly represents them all! Charlie Butland has been a mentor, tutor, and an inspiration to many people. After reading his story, and listening to the musical soundtrack book, I am sure you will add your name to the list of his many fans. Enjoy! ..."
Barry Spilchuk, Co-author of "A Cup of Chicken Soup for the Soul"
Charles Butland Wins R&D Award
The prestigious R&D Award, dubbed as the Nobel Prize of applied research, was award was presented to Charles Butland, founder and Chairman of DNA Security Technologies, for his invention of the DNA Gene Pen and genetic inks to protect against counterfeiting, forgery, and piracy, as one of the worlds top 100 inventions. At a black tie awards ceremony held at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry Museum of Science and Industry on September 19, 1995.
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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
Fouled in the Act of Shooting & Missed Layup
"... A player was fouled in the act of shooting and missed the layup...
Does it count against that player´s FG% ?
And if so shouldn't you add his FT% to his FG% ? ..."
eBA Basketball Statistical Registration:
In terms of statistics keeping, according with the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System:
- if a player is fouled in the act of shooting, it DOES NOT count as a shot attempt and DOES NOT factor into their field goal %;
- FG and FT are independent stats as different categories: so, you can not count FTs as FG;
- a foul on a jump shot also not count against the shooter: if the shooter makes the attempt, then we register a make and an attempt, but if the shooter misses when fouled, we only note the "received foul" by the shooter (but NOT a missed attempt !), the foul made and the FT attempts with it´s result.
Why would you want to punish a player's stats for drawing contact and getting to the line ?
See in our forum the 'foul in the act of shooting' topics and the exposition "Basketball Statistical Analysis" at eBA ONLINE.
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...a New Monday ...a New Basketball DVD eBA DVICE !
All-Access
George Mason Basketball Practice
By Jim Larranaga
In his 14+ years at George Mason, Jim Larranaga has become the school's and the Colonial Athletic Association's all-time leader in wins.
His brand of basketball requires discipline, execution and total commitment.
Now you have sideline access with Coach Larranaga as he leads George Mason through four practices as they prepare for a pre-season trip to Italy.
Throughout all four practices, Larranaga emphasizes fast-paced play, fundamental ball skills and tough defense.
Throughout the video, Larranaga coaches and teaches his players while running his drills, offenses and defense.
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• Number of discs: 3 ~ It's possible to get each one separately !
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• Date Edition: December 2010
• Run Time: Over the 300 minutes
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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
Giving Explanations about Sort of Sample Gathered
"... When we discuss in the eBA Clinics Course about statistician's role, what the meaning of "giving explanations about what sort of sample was gathered, and how might that sample affect the result" ?
This topic is broadly discussed at these eBA Group of Sites: there is a general interpreted sensation that statistical knowledge is many times incorrectly used with intention, by finding ways to translate information from the observation that are favorably disposed to the presenter.
A famous quote, included in our front page, from former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli is "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
In truth , the well-known book "How to Lie With Statistics" by Darrell Huff
By choosing ( or rejecting, or modifying ) a certain sample, results can be manipulated; throwing out bad data values or local anomalies is one means of doing so ( eliminating one or more low performance games of a certain player from his season balance, is a known example ).
This may be the result of without restrictions fraud or of complex, balanced and unintentional bias on the part of the statistician. Do you know the case of that point guard that at home plays, with the locals guys at the computers, had 11.1 assists per game... meanwhile on the road he served only 3.2 ? ..."
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16:49:37, Categories: Video, Photographs & Sounds, Basketball, Features & Comments, Basketball Video Clips eBA 2010 Best Basketball LAST Clip Candidate
' Fire and Ice ! ' from the University of Miami Women's Basketball
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HAPPY DAYS !
Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year !
Twelve years ago this evening, on 24 December 1998, 20:00 GMT, a really scary big button in an old 386 Computer was pressed and the eBA-Stats.com Website went online for the first time.
This Website was the first component of the actual Basketball Statistical Creative Analysis eBA Stats Group and from a start of hits numbered in the thousands, the site now gets almost 20 million hits a year.
As always, an anniversary of our Basketball Statistical Creative Analysis eBA Stats Group, today we blow the 12th. candle..., is a good time to look back on the evolution of the Web and how our sites advanced...
But it’s a different website’s anniversary: we open today the eBA PERMANENT ( 24x7x365 ) Basketball Statistics Clinic and we invite our authors, reviewers, visitors and readers to join the eBA Team to celebrate with us our 12th anniversary.
eBA Stats Group turns 12 today.
Which, in human terms, means we are almost teenager !
In many respects, eBA Stats Group is a different website today from the "10-page volume 1 issue 1" that appeared in December of 1998.
However, when one reads the first (December 1998) and last (December 2010) editorial-articles of Founding Editor Prof. Roberto Azar, there is any doubt about why there should be an evidence of the right road we have well-traveled and what a ride it’s been.
The past 3 years have seen remarkable changes in the eBA Stats Group, both English and Spanish sections, and we now have 24 eBA Team Members in 11 different countries; together with 1264 Editors and 699 Publishers all over the world.
The new RFM (Registered Full Members) Editors being admitted
each week bring a wealth of expertise and experience to the eBA Group of Basketball Statistics Websites !.
We can bet the first founders and authors of eBA-Stats.com didn’t know how huge and important their creation would have become in just 12 years...
As we blow out 12 candles on the eBA-Stats cake, we go on counting new pages (29.731 today, 29.732...), articles, documents and sites:
the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis PERMANENT Clinic since today,
eBA Stats on Twitter since September 2009,
eBA Stats on Facebook since December 2008,
the eBA Basketball 'everything-here' Store since October 2007,
the eBA-Wiki Global Basketball Encyclopedia since January 2006.
the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis Blogs since August 2005,
the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis Clinics since December 2003,
the eBA Basketball Statistics Forum since December 2000...
All this work centralized by the eBA Basketball Statistics Portal
since December 24, 1998 ~ 20:00 GMT.
And this is reality THANKS TO YOU !
Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year !
eBA Stats Group wishes to everybody,
our publishers, editors and registered members,
our friends coaches participants in the courses and clinics,
our advertisers and sponsors,
our readers and thousands of daily guests,
our families, colleagues and personal friends...
A Happy Birthday, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !
May the season bring you joy and good cheer!
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Friday Press Clippings:
Lakers Jump on Pacers Early, Cruise to 109-94 Win
From 20 Second Timeout
By David Friedman
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"... However, even though the game's story is not particularly interesting I do have an interesting story from the game, namely my conversation with a veteran NBA scout who offered some very candid and insightful comments on a wide variety of subjects. He stated without equivocation that Bryant is the best player in the NBA ..."
"... When I told the scout the way that Coach Jackson answered my question about what it means to be an MVP level player he agreed completely, noting that there is a big difference between being a team's main option and being a team's second option: an MVP level player "performs under duress" (Jackson's phrase) in terms of overcoming nagging injuries, fighting through fatigue, dealing with physical play/double teaming defenses and still finding a way to lead his team to victories; a second option player is able to perform at a high level at times--particularly when the defense is tilted toward the first option--but he cannot sustain quite the same level as the first option can nor can the second option overcome quite as much "duress." ..."
"... Gasol's performance this season is an excellent illustration of the limitations of "advanced basketball statistics" and validates what I have been saying about Gasol for the past several seasons: Gasol is an excellent player but he is hardly an MVP level player. ... "
"... The scout agreed with my analysis and told me his own story of "stat guru" follies: a "stat guru" had said to him that the scout's NBA team should start the players with the five highest field goal percentages because field goal percentage is such an important statistic.
The scout chuckled and shook his head, incredulous that the "stat guru" did not understand/would not accept that high field goal percentages can be an artifact of a player's role on the team and that a well balanced starting five must include ballhandlers, shooters and big men: "What are we supposed to do, start five centers if those guys have the five highest shooting percentages?" ..."
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Basketball Statistician's Digest:
November 2010 eBA sketball Statistics Case Study Conclusion
Different Situations
in a Basketball Blocked Shot... Case Study
"... A1 shoots and is fouled by B5....
• case a) The foul occurs before the ball clearly is in flight and the shot is made; or
• case b) the foul occurs before the ball clearly is in flight and the shot is missed; or
• case c) the foul occurs before the ball clearly is in flight and the shot is blocked by B3; or
• case d) the foul occurs after the ball clearly is in flight and the shot is made; or
• case e) the foul occurs after the ball clearly is in flight and the shot is missed; or
• case f) the foul occurs after the ball clearly is in flight and the shot is blocked by B3.
What is the statistical registration according to the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System in each one of the given situations, including the type of the registration ( type of turnover; forced, unforced, individual or collective turnover, good or bad foul; close, long, disputed or undisputed rebound, etc. ) ... ?"
Conclusion:
eBA System Statistics Fundamentals:
A blocked shot is credited to a player any time the player appreciably alters the flight of a FGA and the shot is not made and goaltending is not called, or while in the obvious act of shooting the ball is stuffed or knocked loose before it is in flight and no foul is called.
In addition to being in the obvious act of shooting, the shooting hand must be moving toward the basket in the shooting position or the shooter must be airborne and moving toward the basket with the intention of a dunk or lay-up and the ball must be in position for the shot.
If there is doubt about whether the player was in the act of shooting, the interpretation shall be that that player WAS NOT.
Philosophy: A blocked shot should be credited only when the shot clearly is in flight or the player is in the obvious act of shooting.
In cases where the ball is knocked loose before the player is in the act of shooting, the statistic in question should be a FORCED STEAL.
Photograph by Chris Graythen from Zimbio.com/
eBA Basketball Statistical Registration:
• In (a) and (d) charge A1 with a FGA and credit with a FGM and charge B5 with a BAD PERSONAL FOUL (allows a bonus throw );
• in (b) and (c) do not charge A1 with a FGA. Without a FGA, there can be no blocked shot credited in (c); only charge B5 with a PF;
• in (e) and (f) charge A1 with a FGA, B5 with a PF and credit Team A with a dead-ball rebound;
• in (f) also credit B3 with a blocked shot WITHOUT POSSESSION (since after the foul, the possession is on Team A side, for FT or an outbound throw in).
This Case Study was presented as every 15th. day of each month, on November 15th, 2010 in our eBA Portal : were sent 324 answers, 201 partial answers and 98 totally correct, that's means including all the options, registrations and qualifications.
was awarded to those who submitted the correct answers !
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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
Calculating the 'Rebound Rate' from the boxscore
How to calculate 'Rebound Rate' in basketball from the player's statistics boxscore according to the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System ?
Rebound rate is a very useful statistic to make a division between good rebounders and poor rebounders.
This method give us the percentage of missed shots a player rebounds while on the court, but take into account that it doesn't function for entire teams: it only functions for individuals players.
Obtain the player's statistics whom you are going to analyze from the boxscore. To calculate with few mistakes the rebound rate, we need to know the total number of rebounds grabbed by that player along with the number of minutes the player played.
Come upon team stats for both the team the player you are analyzing and the teams your player went against: total number of rebounds for the team and the total number of rebounds for the opponent and total number of minutes the two teams played.
Add together the number of team rebounds for both teams. Multiply the result by the number of minutes the player played.
Multiply the number of rebounds the individual grabbed by the number of total team minutes played. Take this number, and divide it by the resulting number from the previous calculation. After dividing the two numbers, the result is the rebound rate for the player: that means the percentage of missed shots a player rebounds while on the court.
If you wish to examine and note the similarities or differences of multiple individuals, you need to complete these calculations each time to get the rebound rate for each individual player.
( Prof. Roberto Azar )
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Life and Sports Motivational Videos:
Dreams Must Be Free to Fly High !
No one should negotiate their dreams !
You should never agree to surrender your dreams !
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams !
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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
About an Inadvertent Whistle Statistical Registration Case
"... With 14 seconds left on the shot clock, defender B2 deflects the ball out of bounds.
A2 makes the throw-in and the ball is deflected by B1. With the ball bouncing freely on the floor, an official inadvertently blows his whistle.
1) to whom the ball is awarded;
2) shall the shot clock reset ?
3) how the statistician register this possession ? ..."
Basketball Rule Fundamental:
This case is a assemblage of a rule ( team control ) with a definition ( inadvertent whistle ): when an inadvertent whistle occurs and there was no player or team control at the time of the whistle the shot clock operator shall stop the timing device and reset the shot clock.
BasketbAll Rule Interpretation:
The ball is awarded to Team A according to the alternating procedure.
eBA Basketball Statistical Registration:
The statistician work is only to register the two deflections, because the same original possession is being yet played.
See in our forum the 'basketball free throws rules' topics and the exposition "Basketball Statistical Analysis" at eBA ONLINE.
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eBA Encyclopedia Statistics Terminology: Parameter
In mathematics, statistics, and the mathematical sciences, parameters are quantities that define certain characteristics of systems or functions.
When evaluating the function over a domain or determining the response of the system over a period of time, the independent variables are modulated, while the parameters are held constant.
The function or system may then be reevaluated or reprocessed with different parameters, to give a function or system with different behavior. Loosely speaking, then, parameters are constants in a narrow context but are variables in a larger context.
Moreover, whether a quantity is a parameter or a variable is generally determined by its role in a particular system or function, rather than by anything intrinsic to the quantity.
In non-technical contexts or in jargon, parameter may also simply be a synonym for criterion.
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11:03:57, Categories: Basketball, Features & Comments, Unforgettable Legends Photographs, Basketball News Celebrating our Players: Happy Birthday Jorge Garbajosa !
Jorge Garbajosa Chaparro, Jr.
Position: Forward
Height: 6 ft 9.5 in (2.07 m)
Weight: 245 lb (111 kg)
League: Spanish League & Euroleague
Team: Real Madrid
Born: December 19, 1977 (1977-12-19)
Place: Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Draft: Undrafted, 1999
Pro career: 1994–presentFormer teams:
• Taugres/TAU Cerámica (1994–00)
• Benetton Treviso (2000–04)
• Unicaja Málaga (2004–06)
• Toronto Raptors (2006–08)
• Khimki Moscow Region (2008-09)Awards
• All-Euroleague First Team (2003)
• Italian Cup MVP (2004)
• Spanish Cup MVP (2005)
• All-Euroleague Second Team 2006
• Spanish League Finals MVP (2006)
• Mister Europa Player of the Year (2006)
• NBA All-Rookie First Team (2007Jorge Garbajosa Chaparro, Jr., nicknamed "Garbo" (born December 19, 1977[1]), is a Spanish professional basketball player. At 2.07 m (6 ft 9½ in), he plays both power forward and small forward. He is currently playing with Real Madrid of the Spanish League.
Garbajosa was a member of the Spanish national teams that participated in the 2000 Olympic Basketball Tournament and the 2004 Olympic Basketball Tournament. He also won a bronze medal at the 2001 FIBA European Championship and a silver medal at the 2003 FIBA European Championship.
On September 3, 2006, Garbajosa and the Spanish national team won the gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship, he scored a game high 20 points and collected 10 rebounds in the final against the Greek national team. He averaged 12.6 points and 5.3 rebounds in the tournament. In addition to winning the gold medal, Garbajosa made the All-Tournament team, along with teammate Pau Gasol.
On January 1, 2007, Garbajosa was named Mister Europa 2006 by an Italian weekly magazine, SuperBasket. Other NBA players given this award are Dirk Nowitzki (2005) and Pau Gasol (2004).
At the 2007 FIBA European Championship, Garbajosa again featured for the Spanish team. He averaged 7.8 points per game and 3.1 rebounds per game in the nine games he played, but Spain lost 59–60 to the Russian national team in the final.
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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
Calculating Standard Deviation in Basketball
"... The standard deviation is one of several indices of variability that statisticians use to measure of the spread or dispersion (the data values in a sample are not all the same.
This variation between values is called dispersion) among the measures in a given population.
To calculate the standard deviation of a population it is first necessary to calculate that population's variance. Numerically, the standard deviation is the square root of the variance.
Unlike the variance, which is a somewhat abstract measure of variability, the standard deviation can be readily conceptualized as a distance along the scale of measurement.
The more widely the values are spread out, the larger the standard deviation.
For example, say we have two separate lists of exam results from a team of 15 players; one ranges from 31% to 98%, the other from 82% to 93%, then the standard deviation would be larger for the results of the first exam. ..."
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12:19:27, Categories: Video, Photographs & Sounds, Basketball, Features & Comments, Basketball Video Clips eBA 2010 Best Basketball Clip Candidate
' Do Whatever It Takes ! ' with Carmelo Anthony vs. Carmelo Anthony
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Friday Press Clippings:
Hoop Data Dreams by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
From The New York Times
By Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
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"... This probably makes good sense for a sport like baseball, which is full of discrete events that are easily measured. It is also understandable, however, that there is less of an edge to be gained from statistical analysis now that everyone is doing it.
Basketball, meanwhile, might seem too hectic and woolly for such rigorous dissection. It is far more collaborative than baseball and happens much faster, with players shifting from offense one moment to defense the next ..."
"... What’s the most efficient shot to take besides a layup? Easy, says Zarren: a three-pointer from the corner. What’s one of the most misused, misinterpreted statistics? “Turnovers are way more expensive than people think,” Zarren says.
That’s because most teams focus on the points a defense scores from the turnover but don’t correctly value the offense’s opportunity cost — that is, the points it might have scored had the turnover not occurred. ..."
"... Still, there remains a significant universe of basketball statistics that are simply not captured: each pass thrown and caught, each player’s position on the floor at a given time, any number of angles and proximities and nuances.
Zarren lusts after such data and is quietly pushing for a technological solution that would produce it. One possibility: embed the floor of each N.B.A. arena with electronic sensors and have the players wear microchips in their sneakers. ... "
"... A lot of things happen on a basketball court — picks, passes, defensive shifts — that aren’t routinely quantified. This is not to suggest that basketball teams don’t think statistically.
But only recently have a few teams begun to hire a new breed of stathead to scrutinize every conceivable variable. ..."
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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
Recommended HS-level players Statistics
"...What category of our eBA basketball statistics would the coach provide reasons in favour for HS-level players ?
What performs as expected when applied and what doesn't ? ...
The components I recommend in the basketball statistics analysis at HS-level are the following:
At the team level: shooting ( as the most valuable factor to look at related to change for the better in shooting precision ), turnovers, rebounds and FT percentage.
At the player level: shooting ( as the most important individual statistic at the pro
level ), turnovers, rebounding, FT shooting on offense; fouls, forcing turnovers; rebounding and opponent shooting on the defensive end.
At the player level, it will be important to analyze which are the most valuable offensive players: that's means the players that can produce in an efficient manner with higher usage rates and which players need to be more characterized by careful choice with their shot in order to be effective.
At the High School level, the effective or Adj FG% = ( Total FG + 0.5 * 3ptFG ) / Total FGA is currently applied.
( Prof. Roberto Azar )
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Life and Sports Motivational Videos:
Motivational Circus Performers Delight Patients at Cincinnati
It's not what you would expect to see in the Dialysis Unit at Cincinnati Children's: Kids in patient beds doing circus tricks.
They're spinning plates, balancing peacock feathers — and laughing. Motivational clown Paul Miller, founder of Circus Mojo, has come up with a program called Mojo Medicine to give hospitalized kids a fun outlet.
Miller has a grant to study the mental, physical and emotional effects his performances have on patients.
And if the sound of laughter is any indication, this kind of medicine is working pretty well.
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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
Free Throws ~ Shouting to the Shooter Cases
"... A1 is in act of a free throw shooting when an opponent attempts to distract him by shouting loudly or stamping feet heavily of the floor.
Which is the statistical rule according to the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System if the shot is successful and / or unsuccessful ? ..."
Basketball Rule Fundamental:
While the player is in the act of shooting for free-throws, opponents shall not be permitted to disconcert that player by actions such as waving a hand(s), shouting loudly, stamping feet heavily or clapping hands near the shooter.
BasketbAll Rule Interpretation:
To do so may result in a technical foul if the shooter is disadvantaged by the action, or a warning if the shooter is not disadvantaged.
In this scenery if the shot is successful a warning shall be given to the opponent and shall be communicated to coach B.
This warning shall apply to all players of team B for the remainder of the game for the similar behaviour.
But if the try is unsuccessful a technical foul may be charged to shouter.
eBA Basketball Statistical Registration:
Nothing in the first case - out of the free-throw made, but an unforced turnover and the technical foul committed shall be registered against the shouter in the second case..
See in our forum the 'basketball free throws rules' topics and the exposition "Basketball Statistical Analysis" at eBA ONLINE.
All the terms in this answer are explained widely at The Global Basketball Encyclopedia and in eBA ONLINE.
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Another Way To Play Basketball... and NOT the Best !
The game ended in forfeit after the player from Desoto High School in Arcadia, FL attacked the referee. The player has been removed from the team and may be facing expulsion as well as legal ramifications.
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Dr. Jack’s Leadership Lessons Dr. Jack Ramsay is one of the most respected basketball minds of his generation, and one of the most successful coaches He currently works as a pro basketball analyst for ESPN. This manual is more a recollection of the sport Ramsay knows and loves. |
Many of the author’s tips, directed to those who want to lead both on and off the court, include the need to set clear goals, develop self-confidence, make firm decisions and accept responsibility—certainly not original and often hackneyed.
The text becomes more interesting when Ramsay backs up his advice with anecdotes about such basketball greats as Pat Riley, Michael Jordan and 'Magic' Johnson.
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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
Basketball Power Percentage: for individuals ?
"... Some additional comments referred to the Floor Percentage (use the Search option to read the previous posts) which is "scoring possessions divided by possessions".
For example, a player that scores on 6 of 9 possessions has a floor percentage of 0.555 = 6/9.
This method is used by the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System and applies to teams, meanwhile to individuals is more complicated because scoring possessions and possessions are more complicated to define for individuals.
Three ways about how to calculate Team Floor Percentage:
1. Sum the individual scoring possessions and total possessions and divide.
2. Apply the methods explained in this site at the "eBA Basketball Encyclopedia" in order to calculate the team scoring possessions and total possessions, then divide.
3. Use the Power Percentage. ..."
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Friday Press Clippings:
Flawed Box Score Numbers Can Lead to Faulty Conclusions
From 20 Second Timeout
By David Friedman
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"... but a play from Boston's 105-89 victory over Denver on Wednesday night caught my eye: Rajon Rondo passed the ball to Ray Allen in the right corner, Allen took two dribbles, drove from behind the three point line to the hoop, made a contested left handed layup--and Rondo received an assist ! ..."
"... An assist is supposed to reward the passer for helping to create a shot, not for simply being the last player to handle the ball before someone else shoots. ..."
"... I have never suggested--and do not believe--that the primary problem is "home cooking"; I think that the assist standards have been lowered across the board ..."
"... If, as I suspect, elite playmakers receive a certain benefit of the doubt across the board then things do not really even out over the course of the season--and this should be a great concern to both "old school" journalists/historians as well as to the "stat gurus." ... "
"... now even though I don't believe that he is legitimately averaging over 14 apg--but until the NBA vastly improves its scorekeeping standards I will look with a jaundiced eye at the most subjective box score numbers (assists, steals, blocked shots, turnovers) and I will also be most suspicious of "advanced basketball statistics" that are based on those faulty numbers. ..."
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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
Offensive Efficiency Statistics Elements
"...Once you have kept an account of a team's offensive efficiency: ...
... if I get rid of all the statistics from one player and then calculate anew the team efficiency, ...
... would I obtain something that serves to indicate the player's influence on the team as a single and complete entity ? ...
The eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System doesn't works in this way because the offensive efficiency is contingent upon a number of elements:
1.- Scoring Option / Replacement
2.- Assists / FG ( including passing and ability to get free )
3.- Assists / TO
4.- %FGA / Distance to the Basket ( which includes acuteness, the condition of being high, penetration and posted scoring abilities )
It's hard to make sense of your method because no player plays as a team on his own and by chance if that player is a top PG or a top F or C scorer from a poor team.
( Prof. Roberto Azar )
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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
1 versus 1 & no substitutes available
"... Game ( perhaps from an amateur or non professional
league ) in third extra period. Each team with only two players on court.
One player of each team jumps for the ball and both fall down, being both wounded and cannot continue the game.
So each team left with only one player. Which should be the referees decision and which the statistical register ? ..."
Basketball Rule's Fundamental=
A player may stay in the game even if he receive treatment in the case when there are no substitutes available.
In the case of a minor injury and can be treated on the court, the player should be allowed to continue without penalty.
If the player cannot truly continue because the injury is more serious, their team would lose the game.
In the described scenario, a situation which is very unlikely to occur, if each team was reduced to one player on the same play, it would be a double forfeit, with a final score of 0 - 0.
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Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure In Bhutan the king has his own hoops tutor -- and basketball helped ward off a war. From China to the American Midwest, from the playgrounds of New York to the gyms of Europe, the quaint little sport that James Naismith invented in 1891 has leapt over boundaries and swept across language barriers around the globe. |
To capture this amazing phenomenon, Sports Illustrated senior writer and New York Times bestselling author Alexander Wolff traveled the world and chronicled the personalities, histories, tragedies, and comedies spinning around the sport of basketball -- and shows how its ferocity, power, and grace appeal to the human passions in us all.
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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
Player Per Minute Efficiency Rate Statistics
"... Finding that statistics accounted on a per-minute basis tend to be fairly consistent even when a player changes her role and begins to play more minutes.
This allows for a level playing field in analogy of low-minute reserves (as long as they've played a fair number of minutes; most cut-offs are 250 or 500 minutes for the season) and starters.
Sometimes, you'll hear this referred to as a player's rate; his "scoring rate", for example, would be points per minute. Traditionally, this rate is multiplied by the 40 or 48 minutes in a game so the numbers make more sense.
Player per minute efficiency rate= Stat ( f.ex. Assists ) / Min * 40 or 48
The rating for each player is then adjusted to a per-minute basis, so that, for example, you can compare subs with starters , and also normalized for the team's pace. ..."
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13:26:49, Categories: Video, Photographs & Sounds, Basketball, Features & Comments, Basketball Video Clips eBA 2010 Best Basketball Clip Candidate
' Basketball Is A Brotherhood ! '
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Friday Press Clippings:
Statistics, probability and NCAA's "March Madness"
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By Larry Greenemeier
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"... For a study in the Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, Jacobson was trying to figure out whether the top three teams' seeding in each bracket at the beginning of the tournament is a good predictor of how far they will go in the tournament.
Jacobson analyzed data from NCAA tournaments dating back to 1985, which ended with a classic game that saw Ed Pickney's Villanova Wildcats beat the heavily favored, Patrick Ewing-led Georgetown Hoyas. ..."
"... The tournament's notorious unpredictability didn't stop Joel Sokol, a Georgia Tech operations research professor whose statistical model correctly selected last year's Final Four, championship game and overall tournament winner (the University of Kansas Jayhawks), from developing his own computer program. His picks? ..."
"... Beyond the college tournament, the game of basketball itself relies heavily on probability, particularly when rebounding.
In a study published a year ago in Nature Neuroscience, researchers at Rome's Sapienza University found that basketball players are nearly twice as good as sportswriters at predicting whether a shot will go in the basket, a predictive capability that helps the players put themselves in the proper position to grab a ball that clangs off the rim and start a fast break going the other way. ..."
"... When the researchers showed a group of players from Italy's professional basketball league, coaches, journalists and college students video of a player shooting free throws, 70 percent of the time the players made the correct call, compared to 40 percent for the writers. ..."
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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
Possessions Numbers Very High and Different Statistics
"... Looking at the boxscore of yesterday's games and applying this possession´s formulas:
Poss = (0.96*(FGA + TO - OREB +(0.44*FTA))
we reached to the following numbers
Team A: 105.4
Team B: 114.6
Is this correct ? How can be so different ? Should the "team rebounds" be added to the team total rebounds? Are they all defensive?
It seems like those numbers are too high, and can not be so different:
1 - The eBA Basketball Analysis System register the "team rebounds" and apply them to the team total in equal proportions to the offensive and defensive rebounds that are given in the team total.
In our reports, where we make a distinction between offensive and defensive team rebounds, team rebounds are included in the team total, but referred separately in a special column.
2 - As I said in the eBA Statistics Clinics, the free throw coefficient is only an estimate.
As we stated in this thread, the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System looking for exactness, register the real number of times the team reached the line for 2 or 3 free throws with the concept UP TO THE LINE, remarking between parenthesis the number of times the last throw was MADE.
3 - Shots at the end of the period include - in box scores as your´s - "team rebound" that may add possessions that don't really exists - see for reference this thread.
Technical FTA are subtracted from the regular FTA, since they aren't really part of any possession. ..."
( Prof. Roberto Azar )
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December Cover ~ Basketball Beautiful Faces:
The Miami HEAT Dancers... they win ALL the games !
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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
Simultaneous Fouls ~ about Rule 7-5-9
"... This a question about a throw-in spot for simultaneously personal fouls:
1) A1 foul B1 and B2 fouls A2. Team A has the AP arrow. Where is the throw-in administered?
2) Same situation but team B has the AP arrow. Where is the throw-in administered.
3) Which are both cases stats-men rules. ..."
Basketball Rule's Fundamental= Rule 7-5-9 includes simultaneous fouls and add a note that the spot for the throw-in is determined by the foul of the team not entitled to the alternating possession throw-in.
eBA Basketball Statistical Registration=
In the case 1, because A gets possession, administer the ball nearest the infraction on B2. No possession change, so only the fouls registration for the statistician.
The throw-in is atof the foul committed by the team NOT getting possession of the ball and the throw-in is administered at the spot nearest to B2's foul.
In the case 2, Team B has the AP arrow: the throw-in is taken at the spot nearest A1's foul.
The eBA Statistical Registration is included in the Encyclopedia eBA - Case Studies.
See in our forum the 'simultaneous fouls' topics and the exposition "Basketball Statistical Analysis" at eBA ONLINE.
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eBA Encyclopedia Statistics Terminology: Analogy
Analogy is either the cognitive process of transferring information from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), or a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process.
In a narrower sense, analogy is an inference or an argument from a particular to another particular, as opposed to deduction, induction, and abduction, where at least one of the premises or the conclusion is general.
The word analogy can also refer to the relation between the source and the target themselves, which is often, though not necessarily, a similarity, as in the biological notion of analogy.
In mathematics and statistics, some types of analogies can have a precise mathematical formulation through the concept of isomorphism.
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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
Home & Road Stats ~ the friendly stats-man and the the two Halves
Why Jason Kidd averaged 9.3 assists at home and 7.3 on the road. It's why Ben Wallace averaged 3.0 blocks at home and 1.7 on the road. True, players generally perform better on their home floor, but friendly scorekeepers often inflate their home stats. How the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis controls this situation ?
Most observers of college basketball believe that home teams experience an advantage over away teams. This could be due to an intrinsic advantage for the home team, such as familiarity with the environment and crowd support. Alternately, it could result from an intrinsic disadvantage for the away team, such as the disrupting effect of travel on a team's schedule and routine.
Using a variety of methods, it is possible to express in units of points the home court advantage: during the 2003-2004 Division I men's season, it was registered for home teams a record of 2617-1294-246, meaning that home teams win about two-thirds of their games. For this analysis, the games with overtime(s) are referred as ties.
An about the difference between the two Halves of the season... players generally perform better on their home floor, but friendly scorekeepers often inflate their home stats. How the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis controls this situation ?
Home teams may be, typically, better than away teams. Looking at home-away games during the first half of the season, the game trends indicates home teams often outmatch away teams.
This indicates that in the first half of the season, home teams are in a general and inherent manner stronger than away teams, in a relation of 70-75% of winning percentage.
During the second half, this difference related to the home teams is matched and home and away teams winning percentage are equals to the same degree. This reality brings to the conclusion that winning percentage of home teams concurrently goes down during this time.
Why this difference between the two halves of the season ?
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' Maybe you should Rise ! ' Michael Jordan Answer to Lebron James !
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Friday Press Clippings:
Lukewarm Heat on Pace for 47 Wins
From 20 Second Timeout
By David Friedman
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"... It is not a good sign that the season has barely started and Coach Spoelstra already has to implore the Heat players to keep their egos in check. Wouldn't you love to hook Coach Spoelstra up to a lie detector and find out whose egos he was talking about? ..."
"... Looking forward, what James should do now is make sure that he has his priorities in order. James has boldly declared that he joined forces with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh not to win just one championship but to capture multiple titles.
That means that, based on his own publicly stated standard, any season in which the Heat do not win a championship is a failure. Championships are won by defensive-minded teams that understand the importance of selflessness. James is the Heat's best player, so he must set the tone for the Heat to be a defensive-minded, unselfish team. ..."
"... In the absence of conflicting evidence/testimony, I feel quite comfortable saying that LeBron James dedicated himself last season not to leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to an NBA title but rather to creating as much suspense and drama as he possibly could around his impending "Decision."
When his Cavaliers had an opportunity to seize control of their playoff series versus Boston with a home win in game five, James quit and the Cavaliers suffered their worst home playoff loss in franchise history. ... "
"... James seemed to be a self motivated player who was methodically eliminating his skill set weaknesses but the picture that is emerging now is that he is a high maintenance player who is more about style than substance.
Adrian Wojnarowski's report--which to the best of my knowledge has never been contradicted or refuted--that James conducted himself so boorishly and immaturely that Team USA officials seriously considered not putting him on the 2008 Olympic Team is a devastating indictment levied at the league's most physically gifted player. ..."
"... During the offseason we heard a whole bunch of nonsense, including predictions that James would average a triple double this season and assertions that Wade is the team's best player and would lead the Heat in scoring while James reduced his scoring and played like Magic Johnson. ..."
"... Just as I correctly objected to the absurd notion that Kobe Bryant's career should be defined by one game, I disagree that LeBron James' legacy will be automatically defined by the "Decision" or even by the results of this NBA season; however, although it is too early to say that James permanently damaged his legacy it is not too early to say that he has taken some steps in that direction with the combination of his quitting versus Boston followed by the tone deaf way that he handled the free agency process. ..."
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Don’t they want to win? And no wonder! Teams have an immense amount of detailed, quantifiable information to draw upon. |
And yet, they keep making the same mistakes over and over again...mistakes you’d think they’d learn how to avoid!
Now, two leading sports economists, David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt, reveal those mistakes in basketball, baseball, football, and hockey–and explain why sports decision-makers never seem to learn their lessons. You’ll learn which statistics are linked to wins and which aren’t…and which statistics can predict the future and which can’t (information that just might help you dominate your next fantasy league!).
The next quantum leap beyond Moneyball, this book offers powerful new insights into all human decision-making. Because if multimillion dollar sports teams are getting it wrong this badly, how do you know you’re not?
• Do better coaches really win more? Phil Jackson versus everyone else
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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
Total Number of Team Possessions Statistics
"... This possessions formula ( Field Goals Made + Opp Def. Rebounds + Turnovers + Up to the Line for 2/3 free-throws series ), with the "up to the line" coefficient, was basically created by the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System, because we felt it was a better evaluation of offensive and defensive efficiency than to count stats like total rebounds, or total points scored or allowed or divide the free throws attempts by estimates number of "2" or multiply by "0.4".
About the rebounds formulas, you hear talk about "win the rebound war, win the game" what is in general true, but not always.
The addition of the 3 point shot to the game of basketball causes to re-estimate the value the formula as well.
If in short a team has the opportunity to score at least 3 points on every possession, instead of two, so we have added an additional variable into the equation.
An additional way of thoughts is that by using FGA as a loss of possession, a possession is lost every time a ball is shot. As a result a new possession starts with an offensive rebound. This works against a good offensive rebounding team because it punishes their Points / Possession evaluation.
To resume this question, as said above, from the moment there is discrepancy between the number of free throws attempted per game so that the FTA/2 or FTA*0.4 is not always an evaluation according to the rules, since on any given night the number of 1, 2, or 3 free throw attempts for each fouled possession will vary.
The eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System uses the exact number of possession ended "up to the line" for 2 or 3 throws as a better measure regardless of the total number of attempts. ..."
( Prof. Roberto Azar )
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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
Plus Minus no Related to Minutes to Play
"... A question about the numbers example at the exposition at the statistics course about the plus minus / rating:
The game was a one point lose ( 87/88 ) and player 1 plays 31 minutes with a net score of 75/72 on court and a plus / minus of +3, meanwhile player 2 plays 9 minutes with a net score of 12/16 and a plus minus of -4.
It is possible to analyze that player 1 would be on court for another minute to win the game ? ..."
No, it's NO POSSIBLE to state that conclusion at all: in the same exposition you read at eBA ONLINE ( 'The Plus Minus Rating Analysis' ), it is clearly indicated the following:
"A situation when a player have a NEGATIVE rating ON court and a POSITIVE while on bench, MUST NOT be lightly analyzed as this player should have been played MORE minutes."
Performing basketball statistics analysis, we must take into account, using the Plus / Minus Ratings that the overall debate about this rate has dismissed the effect of opponent strength, because + / - rate doesn't measure player combinations for the opponents.
On the other hand, there is no way to recognize between players who have good individual but bad team numbers, opposed to players with bad individual statistics but good + / - ratings.
Go Back to eBA ONLINE to read the exposition once again...
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This Week Basketball DVD eBA DVICE:
All Access Duke Basketball Practice:
National Championship Season (2009-10)
By Mike Krzyzewski
One of the things that separates Duke from the pack is how Mike Krzyzewski and his staff effectively personalize their offense and defense to fit their personnel.
In this all access DVD package, you will learn the tactics and drills employed by Coach K and his staff to capitalize on the strengths of their personnel.
This video series was filmed at the beginning of the 2009-10 season; a season that saw the Duke Blue Devils claim the NCAA National Championship. ....
"... Throughout each practice Krzyzewski explains his coaching philosophies on offense, defense, transition, basketball fundamentals and many more aspects of the game. He shares his wisdom on team concepts such as player roles, captain selection, team camaraderie and other practical ideas that can be implemented into your own coaching philosophy and team concepts. ..."
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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
How to Estimate the Points Created and the Player Contribution
When we try to come up with a formula that would indicate how many points a player contributed to his team by scoring, rebounding, assisting, stealing , deflecting or blocking: we always reach the same question:
a player may score points because of a rebound or a blocked shot, but what percentage of those points should be credited to the player getting the rebound or blocking the shot ?
How does one define such a percentage ?
It's very possible that a rebound or blocked shot does not lead to a score, so assigning an 'average value' to all rebounds and blocked shot may be inaccurate.
So, the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System compare with a different value whether defensive rebounds, blocked shot and steals in general, which can 'create' points.
It's possible to go on with this discussion and study the Points Created question at The Formulas !
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Friday Press Clippings:
The “Hot–Hand” Theory in Basketball
From The University of Toledo
By Rexanne Bruno, John Reay, Eric Stade and Pat Tarrant
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"... Namely, we address the “hot–hand” theory in basketball. According to this conjecture, a player has a better chance of hitting a shot after a hit than after a miss. Of course, the phrase “better chance” is subject to interpretation, and already in the literature several different takes on this phrase have been considered: one may study only free throws for an individual player, or field goals for an individual player or for a team, or attempts that are limited to one quarter of continuous playing, or attempts that may span a whole game
or different games over several days. ..."
"... Entire sequences of each selected player’s field goal attempts (two and three point shots) were recorded, noting whether each shot was made or missed. The raw data for each player thus consisted of a string of 0’s (missed shots) and 1’s (made shots).
Anasterisk (“*”) in a string was used to indicate that a player left the game, and upon his return a new sequence, not considered contiguous with old one, was started for the player.
This was done to avoid the possibility that an A–team member might miss the actual point at which a player returned, and thus might create spurious relationships between shots. ..."
"... Finally, a runs test was conducted on each of the three longest observed sequences: one of 17 consecutive shots by David Robinson of the Spurs; one of 14 consecutive shots by Shaquille O’Neal of the Magic; and one of 12 consecutive shots by Hakeem Olajuwon of the Rockets.
The objective of such a test is to detect an unusually high, or low, number of “runs” in the data, a run being (in our case) a sequence of one or more consecutive 0’s or consecutive 1’s.
Again the conclusion was the same: there was no statistically significant dependence of one shot on the previous one. ..."
"... Even to quite permissive levels of statistical significance, our data do not indicate a dependence of the success of a given shot on the outcome of the previous one. This result is consistent with much of the literature, although some authors have argued that there is evidence of such a dependence.
(Perhaps the lesson to be learned by this apparent discrepancy is that, before using statistics to answer a question, one should make sure that one has asked the question precisely. Again, we found that this particular project led to many discussions that, while pen–ended, were still quite educational.) ... "
"... Beyond the gathering and analyzing of data, and the drawing of conclusions from the game, there are many ideas to be gleaned from the process of completing the above (or a similar) project.
We think it best that students be asked to look up and retrieve the articles themselves, rather than receiving photocopies or the like.
We hope that, by the time they are nearing completion of the project, they would be eager to find what others have written; moreover, beginning (and other) students will learn from this experience of looking up related research articles. ..."
"... Finally, the students might be asked to explain why and how different researchers can come up with opposite conclusions, when looking at (for example) the hot–hand problem.
The students should clearly report on whether these apparently conflicting conclusions are due to statistical flukes in the various observed data sets, or to the measuring ofdifferent quantities, etc.
Questions of this type should lead the students to reconsider their own analysis, and to determine exactly what questions they tried to answer, and what alternative, related questions could have been asked. ..."
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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
eBA System Non-conventional Statistics
"... What follows are some of the non-conventional statistics I include in the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System in order to establish which have the strongest effect on basketball games success.
• Deflections, deflections for turnovers; etc.;
• Defensive penetrations permitted, defensive penetrations stopped (did we stop our man from penetrating in the paint before he shot or gave up his dribble); etc.;
• Assists in paint, assists outside of paint, assists leading to jump shots, assists leading to layups, assists leading to foul shots, and at all these categories, if are they part of fast break or not; etc.;
• Rebounds in traffic, rebounds from free throws; disputed rebounds; undisputed rebounds; close and long rebounds; etc.;
• Shot percentages - location zone of shot, and whether guarded or open; etc.;
• Turnovers - forced, unforced, rule violation turnovers by type (traveling, 3 seconds, illegal lane invasion, goaltending, palming, etc.); etc.;
• Touches - what frequency, where, duration in seconds, conclusion (pass, assist, shot, turnover as a percentage of total touches); etc.;
• Charges made and taken, blocks made and given; etc.;
• Blocks above head, blocks that were steals, fouls on block attempts by each category; etc.;
• Steals occurred causing an opponent turnover, forced by defense ( i.e., causing an opponent 5 seconds out-of-bounds violation, preventing our man from crossing 8 sec line, or guarding our opponents leading to a 24 seconds clock violation ); etc. ..."
( Prof. Roberto Azar )
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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
Ball is not out of bounds until...
"... Player A throws the ball to an opposing player (player B) who is already out of bounds by a few feet ( for a couple of seconds ). Player B catch it in the chest.
Is the ball out of bounds on Player A or B ? Which is the statistical register ? Which type of turnover we register: forced or unforced ? ..."
The ball is not out of bounds until it either bounces or is touched by somebody who is out of bounds, so the touch by B is needed to make the ball out of bounds and it should be on him.
A young statistician or at live stats may wrongly think that it depends on whether if player B had intentions to play at the ball, if so then yes it would be considered to be out of bounds by him. Now if he didn't have intentions to do so then the ball is out of bounds on player A. Error.
The rules state that whoever makes physical contact with the ball last then it is out of bounds by the last person to touch the ball, so in that case it would be player B.
eBA Basketball Statistical Registration=
The Player B turnover is forced by the action of Player A.
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eBA Encyclopedia Statistics Terminology: Measures of Dispersion
Measures of dispersion give us an index of how spread your data is around the measures of central tendency.
You can use it to see if your participants’ scores cluster around your average or are spread widely from your average.
It is possible to have roughly equal averages but vastly differing dispersion figures for different groups.
There are three main measures of dispersion. They are the range , the variance and the standard deviation.
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Basketball Statistician's Digest:
October 2010 eBA sketball Statistics Case Study Conclusion
Different Situations in a Basketball Rebound... Case Study
"... A missed shot comes off the rim and bounces along the floor. A1 is in position to pick up the ball, but B5 gains control. However, B5 fouls A1...
• case a) before either can touch the ball, or
• case b) as B5 is the first to touch the ball, or
• case c) after B5 is first to gain control of the ball, or
• case d) after A1 is first to touch the ball.
What is the statistical registration according to the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System in each one of the given situations, including the type of the registration ( forced or unforced TO; good or bad foul; close, long, disputed or undisputed rebound, etc.) ... ?"
Conclusion:
eBA System Statistics Fundamentals:
A player should be credited with a rebound only if the player earned that rebound before the ball was dead. What happened after the ball became dead and what would have happened if the ball had not become dead might be different.
The statistician should not attempt to decide what would have happened, but should decide only what did happen. However, if there is doubt about player control, the statistician may assume that there was control.
Sometimes there is doubt about whether a player has gained control of the ball before a certain act takes place. In such cases, the statistician should use the following guidelines.
• (a) If the statistician feels there was a possibility of player control, then the play shall be treated as though there was player control.
• (b) If the statistician feels there definitely was not a possibility of player control, then it shall be treated as though there was no player control.
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eBA Basketball Statistical Registration:
• In (a) the ball became dead when the foul was committed. Charge B5 with a BAD Personal Foul and credit Team A with a LONG UNDISPUTED Dead-ball Offensive Rebound.
• In (b) if B5 gained control before the foul, the official will have indicated that the foul was a player-control foul and B5 would be credited with an individual LONG DISPUTED Defensive Rebound and charged with a FORCED Turnover.
If there is no indication of player control, then credit Team A with a LONG DISPUTED Dead-ball Offensive Rebound.
• In (c) credit B5 with an individual LONG DISPUTED Def Rebound and charge him or her with an UNFORCED turnover
• In (d) if the statistician thinks that A1 possibly had control before the foul, credit A1 with an individual LONG DISPUTED Off Rebound.
If the statistician thinks that A1 definitely did not have control, credit Team A with a LONG UNDISPUTED Dead-ball Offensive Rebound.
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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
Some Numbers about Basketball Starters and Substitutes
We can find at the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System many references to the starters statistics compared with the substitutes stats.
And also, a reasonable approximation for percentage of minutes played vs. opponents starters and vs. opponents substitutes.
I think it is an important data, from the moment that most games are decided in the first few minutes, not the last few on the contrary to popular belief. Therefore the starters performance should be specially analyzed...
As was said and analyzed in our Basketball Statistics Analysis Clinic, most games are decided in the first few minutes, not the last few on the contrary to popular belief.
Here I translate some lines from the study performed at the eBA System about the topic of starters and substitutes, for the complete analysis go to eBAClinics.com.
...Games Started is a fair first indicator upon which to set an estimate of % of minutes played vs. starters and vs. substitutes. Start a high % of games, make a pretence of a distinctive starter model. ...
...Starters arrive to better stats and they bring them against starters ! Starters who only play a few minutes probably don't play against substitutes much at all. ...
...Starters take more rebounds than substitutes, and so a player's Games Started % ( %minutes vs starters ) should change the status to a proportionate degree the % of rebounds a substitute obtain. ...
... Number of fouls made vary by 50% from high% starters compared with substitutes. The starters render 60-80% of points, rebounds and assists on most teams but substitutes often perform more than 50 percent of the fouls given the deliberate team strategy to use fouls to give from the bench. ...
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Friday Press Clippings:
Statistics in sports ~ Basketball, Baseball & Football
From Mike Kueber's Blog
By Mike Kueber
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"... There are three kinds of lies – lies, damned lies, and statistics. Although attributed to Mark Twain, it was actually British politician Benjamin Disraeli who coined that expression. I don’t think statistics in sports have reached that level of mendacity, but there are often misleading. ..."
"... Statistician Bill James has done more than anyone to make sports statistics meaningful. Starting in 1977, he self-published The Bill James Baseball Abstract, which contains his statistical analysis of baseball strategy, productivity, and effectiveness, and his influence in the baseball world has grown continually ever since.
James has developed countless statistics that reveal a player’s offensive and defensive effectiveness (e.g., runs created and range factor), and he has shown that certain time-honored managerial strategies are incorrect (e.g., when to hit-and-run or bunt).
In 2006, James was named by Time magazine as one of the hundred most influential people in the world (in the Thinking category). He has also been the subject of a profile on “60 Minutes”. ..."
"... As sabermetrics became generally accepted in baseball, it made gradual in-roads into other sports, too, like basketball and football. In fact, I was prompted to write about this subject by a recent Happy Hour with Kevin Brown during which he complained about some misleading basketball statistics.
He thinks scoring, rebounds, and assists should be modified to reflect so many per minute. (I think Kevin’s favorite player doesn’t play a lot of minutes, but generates a lot of numbers in those minutes.)
Kevin also complained that quarterback ratings in football should consider dropped passes and interceptions off of deflections. ..."
"... Whereas Kevin wants statistics to show points per minute, I want show points per possession consumed. You might think that the number of shots taken would fully reflect this, but it doesn’t because it fails count possessions that end in free throws. For example, Kobe Bryan may shoot 4 of 14 and score 14 points because he made 6 of 8 free throws.
According to my statistic, he scored 14 points out of 18 possessions (or 20 possessions if you count his two turnovers). I would be interested in comparing Kobe, LeBron, and Durant with this statistic. ... "
"... Interestingly, football and basketball numbers crunchers use the term sabermetics even though, technically, the term is based on the term, “Society of American Baseball Research.”
In my opinion, managerial hunches has been have been vastly overrated; not much more than an excuse for not doing the necessary study and thinking. With all of the money involved in professional sports, statistical analysis should be a part of Management 101. ..."
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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
How to Determine Standard Deviations
How do we determine where a player who takes 1000 FGA in 2000 Min in a season, stands in terms of standard deviation as compared to the league rate of FGA/Min ?
1) Make the statistical computation FGA/Min for every player.
2) Find the standard deviation of all those values.
And then the formula is:
[ (1000/2000) - (Avg FGA/Min) ] / (stddev)
Also, it is possible to use to use percentiles. Sort all players by FGA/Min, give everyone a rank. Divide the rank by the total number of players in the above sample.
Performing this calculation we must not mistake precision with accuracy. Nonparametric elements like percentiles make no hypothesis that is taken for granted about the shape of the distribution: they are more cautious measures and much less likely to return errors at the the highest degrees.
If you're searching leaders in a category, I recommend you to always use nonparametric measures with a common plan with parametric measure, merely to be sure there are no outliers into your results.
The weighted standard deviation doesn't succeed in seizing the unfairness between two players with the same rates in different quantities of playing time. Same rate is as if: that rate and no more. What it would succeed in catching is a significant change between the width of the distributions, having an effect upon the standard scores. The differences between player rates would be involved, but not if they have the same rate.
When analyzing numbers with measures that aren't well fully apprehended, I give preference to study at the numbers from multiple angles. In this case which you propose at your question, I would perform the computations using
1. Percentiles
2. Standard deviation
3. Weighted Standard deviation by minutes
4. Weighted Standard deviation by square root (minutes per game)
and examine and note the similarities or differences of them. There shouldn't be much significant change, but it would be holding the attention if there was.
( Prof. Roberto Azar )
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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
The Closely Guarded Count Continue ?
"... When a dribbler is advancing toward the basket area, does the closely guarded count continue ? ..."
First of all, we'll read something about the rule 'Closely Guarded Player / 5 Second Violation':
"A player in control of the ball is closely guarded when an opponent is in a guarding stance within six feet. A closely guarded violation occurs if the closely guarded player, while in the frontcourt, holds or dribbles the ball for more than five seconds. The violation is a turnover to the defensive team."
Here are the differences between the leagues:
FIBA: Player holding the ball for 5 seconds, actively guarded within one metre, anywhere on the court.
NCAA: front court only, holding or dribbling the ball ( not a combination of both actions ) for 5 seconds, within 6'/2 m ( Women: 3' ).
CIS: Player holding the ball for 5 seconds, actively guarded within one metre, front court only.
NBA: No closely guarded rule; Illegal to dribble with your back to the basket for 5 consecutive seconds while you are between the baseline and the free throw line extended.
WNBA: No rule.
When a dribbler is advancing toward the basket area and the closely guarded rule is in effect, the count continues. The rule is in place anywhere in the front court.
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Ray Lokar is the Southern California Lead Trainer for the Positive Coaching Alliance.
He has spoken for hundreds of organizations in over a dozen States on ethics in sports, getting the most out of your players, and being a good Sports Parent.
Coach "Lók" has taught basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, football, swimming and track in the San Gabriel Valley for over 25 years at the youth, high school, and college levels and has worked countless camps and clinics during that time for ages 8-18.
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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
Thoughts about Losing the Game
Lots of stuff to consider when you lose a game. Could be one thing or a combination of things that caused the late game falter.
Rebounding - did you give up second chance shots; did you get any?
Defense - did your players encounter a different defense, more pressure, traps full or half court? Did your defense get lazy?
Did you allow mini runs of 4-6 points and not have an offensive reply - we call those empty possessions. Did you get beat in transition?
Offense - did you continue to attack the basket or settle for jumpers? Jump shooters don't get fouled by the good teams late in the game.
If you decided that a ten point lead was good enough to win the game and pulled the ball out, you may have screwed up your momentum / offensive continuity thinking your lead could hold up.
Foul shooting? Sub patterns - did you have the wrong guys in at the end of the game?
Fatigue will make a player make mental mistakes. So that is possible another thing to consider......
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' Spy 3 ' with Dwyane Wade
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Friday Press Clippings:
Point Shaving in NCAA Basketball: Corrupt Behavior or Statistical Artifact?
From Temple University
By George Diemer and Mike Leeds
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Corrupt Behavior or Statistical Artifact? ' by George Diemer and Mike Leeds
"... Gambling on sporting events has probably existed as long as sports themselves. The founding myth of the ancient Olympic Games surrounds a chariot race that the Greek hero Pelops rigs so as to win the race and marry the king’s daughter.
Now, as then, gamblers have an incentive to insure that they win their bets on athletic events by somehow fixing the outcome. ..."
"... Point shaving typically occurs when one or more participants ensure that his team wins by less than the point spread.1 The point spread is the number of points by which gambling houses expect the favored team to beat the underdog.
Point spreads are a popular form of gambling because they attract bets on games between two unevenly matched teams. A team can lose the game badly, but it can still garner support by gamblers if they can bet that the team will lose by less than the bookmakers predict. ..."
"... The nature of basketball lends itself to point shaving. Basketball is a much higherscoring game than sports like soccer or baseball. As a result, the final point differential is generally much larger in basketball.
The wider differential increases the opportunity for allowing the other team to score or to failing to score oneself without greatly increasing the chance that one will lose the game.3 In addition, unlike football, relatively few points can be scored in any one possession, which limits the ability of a team to make up a large deficit very quickly.
Finally, the large number of regular season games reduces the amount of scrutiny any one game receives. ..."
"... As noted above, point shaving is more likely to occur at higher point spreads. As
the spread increases, it becomes easier for players to satisfy their secondary objective
(winning the wager) without compromising their presumed primary objective (winning
the game). ... "
"... If the evidence of point shaving is a statistical artifact, then regular season games and tournament games should show similar results. Under the null of no point shaving, we would again expect to find heteroskedasticity for post-season games.
If we cannot reject the hypothesis of a constant variance, then we have still more reason to believe that incentives to shave points again effect game outcomes. This time, as the incentives to shave points decreases in tournament play, statistical evidence of point shaving (heteroskedasticity) disappears. ..."
"... We show that point shaving is more likely to occur for regular season games that
have larger point spreads. This satisfies the gamblers who want to fix the game while
minimizing the change that the favored team will lose the game.
Because post-season games receive much closer scrutiny than regular season games, they are likely to be much harder to fix undetected.
Moreover, because post-season games are much more important than typical regular season games, we expect players to be more reluctant to participate in point shaving. Our results confirm this hypothesis.
Our results thus reject the null hypothesis of no point shaving when the incentives to shave points are strong and fail to reject the null hypothesis when the incentives are weak. ..."
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Normalizados para la Valoración de Jugadores: el Caso de las Estadísticas por Minuto en Baloncesto ' by J. A. Martínez, and L. Martínez .
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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
About the Home Teams Winning Percentage
Home teams may be, typically, better than away teams.
Looking at home-away games during the first half of the season, the game trends indicates home teams often outmatch away teams.
This indicates that in the first half of the season, home teams are in a general and inherent manner stronger than away teams, in a relation of 70-75% of winning percentage.
During the second half, this difference related to the home teams is matched and home and away teams winning percentage are equals to the same degree.
This reality brings to the conclusion that winning percentage of home teams concurrently goes down during this time.
Why this difference between the two halves of the season ?
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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
Two players which Play in Different Teams and Leagues
... How can we compare the shooting performance of two players, when they play in different teams and leagues ? ...
The first way is to compute percentages. Percentages alone can be misinforming, however. For example, two basketball players with the same field goal percentages of .667 can have very different information.
One could have made 44 field goals out of 66 attempts while the other has made 8 out of 12 attempts.
Since the first player has made a reasonably large number of field goal attempts, his percentage is probably to be very firm and equilibrating; however, the second player has made relatively few attempts so his percentage might be unstable more despite equivalent play over the next few games.
For example, if both players make 2 of the next 5 field goal attempts, their averages would be .648 and .588 respectively.
This is why box scores usually list both the FG-FGA ratio and the percentage after each players' names.
This practice gives a more accurate statistical background of the basketball players' performances.
Another way is participating in the eBA Basketball Statistics Clinic from where I bring the answer for you.
See in our forum the 'basketball statistics comparison' topics and the exposition "Basketball Statistical Analysis" at eBA ONLINE.
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November Cover ~ Basketball Beautiful Faces:
Lakers' Cheerleaders during a Lakers NBA Europe Live game in London !
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eBA Encyclopedia Statistics Terminology: Heat Map
A heat map is a graphical representation of data where the values taken by a variable in a two-dimensional map are represented as colors. A very similar presentation form is a tree map. The term is also used to mean its thematic application as a choropleth map.
There are several different kinds of heat map:
• Web heat maps have been used for displaying areas of a Web page most frequently scanned by visitors.
• Biology heat maps are typically used in molecular biology to represent the level of expression of many genes across a number of comparable samples (e.g. cells in different states, samples from different patients) as they are obtained from DNA microarrays.
• The tree map is a 2D hierarchical partitioning of data that visually resembles a heat map.
• A mosaic plot is a tiled heat map for representing a two-way or higher-way table of data. As with treemaps, the rectangular regions in a mosaic plot are hierarchically organized. The means that the regions are rectangles instead of squares. Friendly (1994) surveys the history and usage of this graph.
Each NBA Basketball Team Heat Map shows who was coaching the basketball team that year, who were the top offensive players on the team, and by how many possessions each team won or lost over a 5 year period.
The overall goal of the charts is to be able to observe how time, coaches and players create point spread trends. Win percentage paints a narrow picture of how key personnel react to being put into different game situations. Year-over-year trends may help people see why their team is gaining or losing ground to the competition.
Each color is a point range that the team won or lost by in that year. Green to red bars are wins, while blues are losses. The lower area provides team information for each year. The right bar shows the average share of games won ad lost by each 3-point range over the last 5 year in the NBA.
One of the discovered insights is how certain teams and coaches are more likely to win by 3 or fewer points than they lose by the same margin.
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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
How to manage the Steals registration ?
This is only the index of the "Steals Charting" chapter from my exposition about 'Steals Analysis' at eBA ONLINE Clinics. Each principle is fully explained and discussed at that exposition throughout concepts, examples and case studies.
"... eBA Rebound Charting Principles:
A - Steals Dispute Situation:
1. Undisputed steals: 1 or more players from the same team are in the proximity of where the ball is stolen.
2. Disputed steals: the same number of players dispute the ball ( 1 vs. 1, 2 vs. 2, etc.)
3. Steal under favorable conditions : our team has more players disputing for the ball ( 2 vs 1 , etc.)
4. Steal under unfavorable conditions: our team has less players in the dispute ( 1 vs. 2 , etc. ) ..."
"... B - Steal Type Registration:
1. Stealing from the dribble;
2. Stealing off the pass;
3. Stealing off a post player; ..."
"... D - Steal Analysis:
1. Non-steal forced turnovers: to pressure an offensive player into traveling, a double dribble, a bad pass, or drawing a charge.
2. Steal forced turnovers.
3. Get out position going for a steal: risking negative results such as penetration and open shots;
4. Steal without gambling: do not get out position frequently and do not risks the own defense. ..."
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King of the Court: Bill Russell was not was not the first African American to play professional basketball, but he was its first black superstar. In King of the Court, Aram Goudsouzian provides a vivid and engrossing chronicle of the life and career of this brilliant champion and courageous racial pioneer. |
Russell's leaping, wide-ranging defense altered the game's texture. His teams provided models of racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s, and, in 1966, he became the first black coach of any major professional team sport.
Yet, like no athlete before him, Russell challenged the politics of sport. Instead of displaying appreciative deference, he decried racist institutions, embraced his African roots, and challenged the nonviolent tenets of the civil rights movement.
This beautifully written book—sophisticated, nuanced, and insightful—reveals a singular individual who expressed the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. while echoing the warnings of Malcolm X.
"... Russell defended the way Picasso painted, the way Hemingway wrote: in time, he changed how people understood the craft. Until Russell, the game stayed close to the floor. No longer. Twice Bob Pettit drove past his defender for presumably easy layups. Twice Russell pounced, redirecting the star forward’s efforts toward a Boston teammate. “I think we just witnessed the birth of a star and the start of a bright new era in Celtics history,” proclaimed radio announcer Johnny Most. “I just saw Bob Pettit shaking his head in total disgust — and that is a great sight for every Celtics fan. Bob Cousy marveled at Russel’s explosive quickness, his radical disruptions of established patterns.
As Boston’s star guard walked off the Garden’s floor, he thought that the future had arrived. ..."
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' What Should I Do ? ' with Lebron James
This isn't about what LeBron James has done, or hasn't done. This is about the difference between the expectations others may have of him versus the expectations he has of himself. What should he do? The answer is a question.
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Friday Press Clippings:
LeBron James Asks, "What Should I Do?"
From 20 Second Timeout
By David Friedman
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"... In his newest TV commercial, LeBron James asks, "What should I do?" Instead of being interviewed by a real journalist who would ask serious questions, James prefers to either deal with a shill like Jim Gray or else have his message condensed into a 90 second propaganda video created by his shoe company's marketers--but here are some answers to James' rhetorical question. ..."
"... Looking forward, what James should do now is make sure that he has his priorities in order. James has boldly declared that he joined forces with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh not to win just one championship but to capture multiple titles.
That means that, based on his own publicly stated standard, any season in which the Heat do not win a championship is a failure. Championships are won by defensive-minded teams that understand the importance of selflessness. James is the Heat's best player, so he must set the tone for the Heat to be a defensive-minded, unselfish team. ..."
"... Phil Jackson's teams have won 11 of the last 20 NBA championships. Think about that for a moment--one coach has captured more than half of the titles over a span of two decades!
Jackson has been blessed to coach arguably the two greatest shooting guards in NBA history plus a host of other talented greats including Shaquille O'Neal, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman but one of the main reasons for Jackson's unprecedented success is that he is not afraid to challenge his superstars.
Part of the way that Jackson challenges great players is by insisting that they play within what Jordan derided as an "equal opportunity" system, namely the Triangle Offense. ... "
"... While the Magic Johnson-LeBron James comparison is bogus, it is valid to compare LeBron James to Oscar Robertson. Many people may not realize that during Robertson's prime he was criticized in some quarters for dominating the ball; Robertson did not make it to the NBA Finals, let alone win a championship, until he teamed up with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor) and accepted a less dominant role. ..."
"... The question for James is whether his legacy is going to consist of successfully emulating the championship substance of Jordan and Bryant or if it is going to consist of flashy highlights, regrettable soundbites and some carefully crafted commercials. ..."
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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
About the Correct Way of Evaluating Defense
What kind of information is needed in order to evaluate defense in the right manner ?
Basketball has a lot of difficult areas of quantitative information when we translate a game into statistics.
For example, categories as "allowed points - from 2, 3 and PF bonus"; "offensive rebounds allowed"; "turnovers - that aren't steals" and "good and bad personal fouls" - see our complete list of statistical analysis categories here, which are included in the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System, are not accounted in the traditional statistical methods, specially those made at live game time.
For example, analyzing wing players we put aside blocked shots, because for a wing player, getting a block doesn't necessarily make him a good defensive player. On a wing steals are more important and give the coach evidences about who is working hard and anticipating.
Blocks shots shows the coach that the player is tall and quick and playing hard, but those factors isolated from others don't make a good defensive player. Switching, anticipating, filling lanes, and making steals are events that do.
Gathering and analyzing those categories of data will give us a sort of information, for example, about how many unguarded shots - no fast breaks plays - were taken by the opponents, and how many were allowed to us.
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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
Ball hits the top of the Backboard
In the NBA, if a ball hits the top of the backboard is still in play, meanwhile at FIBA the ball is "out".
May you clear me this situation and the differences ?
In the NBA, High School & College Rules: a ball that hits the top of the backboard is still in play: the only part of the backboard that's out of bounds is its back; both sides, top, and bottom are in play.
The edges of the board and the front side of the board are all in bounds.
If the ball passes over the top of the board, however, it is out of bounds (except in International/FIBA rules).
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This Week Basketball DVD eBA DVICE:
The Championship Feeder System
By Coach Jerry Petitgoue
Jerry Petitgoue is an American basketball coach.
Coach Petitgoue is the Head Basketball Coach at Cuba City High School in Wisconsin.
He’s been coaching for over 44 years. And in that time, he has compiled an incredible 748-189 record and is the winningest high school coach in Wisconsin history!
Coach Jerry Petitgoue has guided his teams to 19 conference championships and has won 3 Wisconsin State Championships, and 26 Straight 15+ win seasons... and regularly routing heavyweight competition from Milwaukee, Indianapolis and Chicago.
He’s known in the “inner circles” of the basketball world as a giant killer – a small-town coach with a knack for taking out big-city rivals with an overpowering display of precision passing and finely-tuned offensive execution and now opening for us the doors of his great knowledge about youth basketball training !.
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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
The Future of Basketball Statistics
Conventional wisdom says linear weights are the best way to predict team performance, but is it?
Hoopsworld.com writer Kevin Pelton takes a hard look at the problems with linear weights and its dismal correlation coefficient (0.577) and rounds up some suspects for logical flaws in the method in his piece on The Future of NBA Statistics: Part One.
"Maybe every thing we track is equally important, and the weight for each statistic is one. Bam, you've got Manley Credits, or the NBA's Efficiency Rating System.
TENDEX’s relative success begat a number of different rating systems, with different values, or weights, on each major statistical category, but all of the same general form:
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' Love / Hate ! '
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Friday Press Clippings: He Stats ! He Scores !
From SR Weekly News
By Tommy Craggs
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"... Right now, Beech's spreadsheets tell him that Dampier, touted all year as one of the NBA's most improved players, has actually been a liability. "Basically," Beech says one afternoon in January, clicking around on his computer and bringing up a page of Dampier's numbers, "the team is worse offensively when he's on the floor. It's pretty dramatic.
They're about a tenth of a point per possession worse. Field goal percentage is down a bit. Rebounding is a wash. ..."
"... The geeks have yet to find the same kind of foothold in basketball, a relatively young professional sport that hasn't generated a century's worth of statistics. Nor have they established the kind of large community that sustained baseball research for years on the margin of the sport; the Association for Professional Basketball Research wasn't even created until 1997.
Twenty years ago, Bill James famously wrote that "baseball statistics, unlike the statistics in any other area, have acquired the powers of language," a verdict that still holds. ..."
"... Partly, that's due to the nature of the game. In baseball, the most important interaction, pitcher versus hitter, is one-on-one, with solid statistics to express the outcome.
In basketball, though, a jump shot from 15 feet could be the result of a pick-and-roll, a kick-out from the post, a crisp pass from the perimeter -- a complex interaction among teammates, in other words, reduced to two points and an assist in the next day's box score. "The players are so tied together," Beech says, "that there are a lot of statistics not reflected in the personal stats." ... "
"... Similarly, on-court/off-court breaks down a team's statistics -- how it shoots, defends, rebounds, and so on -- with and without a certain player in the lineup. Both stats have their flaws, which Beech readily acknowledges (and would like to correct). A good point guard with a strong backup might look worse than an average point guard who's playing ahead of a developmental-league call-up from Fayetteville. But as rough indexes of a player's effectiveness, plus-minus and on-court/off-court are often illuminating. ..."
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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
PGP - Player Game Percentage
PGP means "Player Game Percentage" and is a technique developed by Jay Bennett and John Flueck to estimate the value of baseball player performance based on the player's contribution to victory.
A player's PGP for a game is simply the sum of all aspects of the game for each play in which the player participated.
In turn, his PGP value for a series of games is the sum of PGPs for each game divided by the number of games.
Among PGPs strengths is its ability to measure the true value of the player to his team since it measures the players contributions within the context of the game.
With reference to the relation of the PGP with basketball, consult the following threads in our forum: "Points Created: Player Contribution" and "Winning Percentage Calculation"
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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
Practice Descriptive Statistics
Question: Two players on the same drill show the following results over a long period of time.
Player A= Mean time of completing the drill (seconds) - 30
...............Standard deviation (seconds) - 6
Player B= Mean time of completing the drill (seconds) - 25
.............................................Standard deviation (seconds) - 4
...............a. Which player appears to be more consistent in the time he
...................requires to complete the drill?
...............b. Which player appears to be faster in completing the drill?
Answer:
a. Player B appears to be more consistent in the time he requires to complete the
....drill, since he has a smaller variance.
b. Player B appears to be faster in completing the drill, since he has a smaller mean.
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The Baffled Parent's Guide “... We have obviously some very bright kids who can do some high-level academic work. But when it comes to playing basketball, nobody cares. “... When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong. ...” |
“... For the most part, I was very proud of our effort. Before the game, we talked a little bit about having tremendous respect for this program, but we couldn't let that become a fear factor. I thought our guys did a pretty good job of understanding that concept. ...”
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