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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.

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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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