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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
About the Basketball Player Regularity in Certain Category

A basketball coach is interested not only in the player's average performance in certain game's category (points made or rebounds grabbed), but in his regularity in that category.

Certainly, an irregular player may be scoring his maximum points in an important game, but it's possible the contrary too.

In spite of the importance of the regularity, the official basketball statistics doesn't reflect this characteristic.

How the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System register the player's regularity ?

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The player performance throughout a whole season will be evaluated by means of iso-elastic function which is greatly explained in a work of Alejandro Esteller-Moré: "A note about the statistics sports about the regular players" in a PDF document ( in spanish ) which may be reached clicking on the title and where he propose to use the well-known social welfare function of Atkinson (1970) to evaluate the performance of a player in any category.

"... Probably, many basketball coaches (and supporters) prefer those players that score a regular amount of points in each game to those other players that, though on average do equally well or even better, are more irregular. However, sports statistics do not reflect regularity.

In order to take into account this characteristic seriously, we propose to use the well-known social welfare function of Atkinson (1970) to evaluate the performance of a player in any category. Alejandro Esteller-Moré ..."

The eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System studies and applies this analysis function in the eBA Basketball Statistics Clinics.

Selected excerpts from the discussions at the eBA Annual Analysis System Clinic Chat about this topic "Basketball Player Regularity".

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

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