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Title:
Basketball on paper : rules and tools for performance analysis
Author:
Oliver, Dean, 1969-
ISBN:
9781574886870
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, Inc., ©2004.
Physical Description:
xvi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
How to read this book -- Watching a game : offensive score sheets -- The best offenses and defenses (and some of the worst, too) -- Reserve your playoff tickets now! We won three in a row! -- Teamwork -- Rebounding myths and roles -- The significance of Derrick Coleman's insignificance -- Amos Tversky's basketball legacy -- The power of parity -- Teamwork 2 : a game of ultimatums -- Basketball's bell curve -- The effect of bad referees and other short stories -- Teamwork 3 : distributing credit among cooperating players -- Individual floor percentages and offensive ratings -- The Holy Grail of player ratings -- Insight on a boxscore -- Individual defensive ratings -- Should I firebomb Billy Donovan's house? -- The problem with scorers -- Individual win-loss records -- Player evaluation files : the great ones -- Player evaluation files : freaks, specialists, and women -- Basic tools to evaluate a team -- Weather forecasts -- Calculation of individual offensive ratings and floor percentages -- Individual floor percentages and offensive ratings for history's great offenses -- Individual defensive formulas -- Team statistic hisstorical regression.
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