Basketball on paper rules and tools for performance analysis
Journey inside the numbers for an exceptional set of statistical tools and rules that can help explain the winning, or losing, ways of a basketball team. Basketball on Paper doesnÆt diagram plays or explain how players get in shape, but instead demonstrates how to interpret player and team performan...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dulles, Virginia :
Potomac Books, Inc
[2004]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009635334606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 How to Read This Book; Chapter 2 Watching a Game: Offensive Score Sheets; Chapter 3 The Best Offenses and Defenses (And Some of the Worst, Too); Chapter 4 Reserve Your Playoff Tickets Now! We Won Three in a Row!; Chapter 5 Teamwork; Chapter 6 Rebounding Myths and Roles; Chapter 7 The Significance of Derrick Coleman's Insignificance; Chapter 8 Amos Tversky's Basketball Legacy; Chapter 9 The Power of Parity; Chapter 10 Teamwork 2: A Game of Ultimatums; Chapter 11 Basketball's Bell Curve
- Chapter 12 The Effect of Bad Referees and Other Short StoriesChapter 13 Teamwork 3: Distributing Credit among Cooperating Players; Chapter 14 Individual Floor Percentages and Offensive Ratings; Chapter 15 The Holy Grail of Player Ratings; Chapter 16 Insight on a Boxscore; Chapter 17 Individual Defensive Ratings; Chapter 18 Should I Firebomb Billy Donovan's House?; Chapter 19 The Problem with Scorers; Chapter 20 Individual Win-Loss Records; Chapter 21 Player Evaluation Files: The Great Ones; Chapter 22 Player Evaluation Files: Freaks, Specialists, and Women
- Chapter 23 Basic Tools to Evaluate a TeamChapter 24 Weather Forecasts; Appendix 1 Calculation of Individual Offensive Ratings and Floor Percentages; Appendix 2 Individual Floor Percentages and Offensive Ratings for History's Great Offenses; Appendix 3 Individual Defensive Formulas; Appendix 4 Team Statistic Historical Regression; Glossary; A; B; C; D; F; G; M; O; P; R; S; U; V; Z; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; About the Author
