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Basketball, on the opposite of the individual Baseball, is a game of 5 on 5. To get people open shots will almost always involve the coordinated actions of several players, sometimes all 5. Defense, even more so, is played by all 5 players as a unit. Because of these effects, there is much more potential for intangibles, things which don't show up on the stat sheet, to effect a game. A guy setting a really good pick isn't recorded, nor is the ability to rotate over on defense. This is the first of a serial of articles about statistical analysis and its formulas: this one about Possessions. Assists, Rebounding, Steals and Turnovers and the "all-together" conclusions, will come on. |
Measuring playersby Jean Louis Trezeguet, Belgium - December 17, 2002 The central objective of Basketball analysis is to try to find a way to
measure the value of individual players. The form that this usually takes is to look at
each statistic, and assign them particular values. If a player scores 20 points,
that’s worth so much. Each assist is worth so much, etc. And at the end, you add up
all the numbers to get a value.
PossessionsThe most necessary statistic for any additional analysis, is the number
of possessions a team gets in a game. Points scored doesn’t tell the whole story,
because different styles of play will lead to different numbers of possessions. If a team
play slow-down ball, almost running the shot clock to zero each possession, then there
will be fewer total possessions in the game. Essentially, this shortens the game, since
the real length of the game in practical terms is how many possessions each team gets. Related Source
To Be Continued with "Analyzing ASSISTS" |
By: Bob
Huggins 
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