Basketball on Paper Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis

Name: Basketball on Paper Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis
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ISBN: 9781574886887

ISBN-10: 1574886886

ISBN-13: 9781574886887

Edition: 2004

Authors: Dean Oliver

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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Potomac Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



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 Historical Regression


Glossary


References


Index


About the Author