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Basketball on paper : rules and tools for performance analysis /

"Basketball on Paper doesn't just stop with player evaluation: Dean Oliver occasionally applies business models to teamwork debates, and discusses strategy and variables of the game. How should an underdog change its strategy from when it is favored? How many wins or losses does a coach co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oliver, Dean, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, Inc., ©2004.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.