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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
Offensive Foul and Forced Turnover

"... When a player commits an offensive foul but he's still able to make the basket ?

When is forced turnover and when is unforced ?

What about the proper ruling and the statistical registration according to the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis
System ? ..."

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

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

In NCAA Men's rules and FIBA, if a shooter charges an opponent after releasing the ball, the basket, if made, shall count.

eBA Basketball Statistical Registration=
If the charge is "caused" by the defender's position and action, the turnover is charged to the shooter as a "forced" one, so the steal registered to the defender. In all the other cases, in which the foul is caused by a push or a wrong action of the shooter without real intervention of the defender, the turnover charged to the shooter and the steal registered to the defender are "unforced".

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

See in our forum the 'offensive fouls' topics and the exposition "Basketball Fouls Statistical Analysis" at eBA ONLINE.

All the terms in this answer are explained widely at The Global Basketball Encyclopedia and in eBA ONLINE.

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

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