Analyzing
Assists
(Excerpt of one of the expositions from eBA ONLINE)
"....We can define the best passing team
to be the team that can best make the difficult passes that produce points. By means of
the assist
percentage - the percentage of a team's field goals that were assisted on – the eBA
Basketball Statistics Analysis System tells us more about a team's style than their
substance.
Another obvious element is that this metric is somewhat dependent on how often a team made
three-pointers, because the circumstantial numerical evidence that so many three-pointers
are assisted.
It is not surprising at all that three-pointers tend to get more assists, having a portion
of two-pointers which are "un-assistable", the result of put-backs and tip-ins,
while few threes are shot off of the dribble. ......"
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