Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis

✍ Scribed by Oliver, Dean

• Publisher: Brassey's, Incorporated;Potomac Books Inc
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 performance. Dean Oliver highlights general strategies for teams when theyÆre winning or losing and what aspects should be the focus in either situation. He describes and quantifies the jobs of team leaders and role players, then discusses the interactions between players and how to achieve the best.;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.

✦ Table of Contents

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
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References
Index
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About the Author.

✦ Subjects

Basketball--United States--Statistical methods;;Basketball -- United States -- Statistical methods