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Statistician's Digest:
About Inadvertent Whistle Register

"...With 14 seconds left on the shot clock, defender B2 deflects the ball out of bounds. A2 makes the throw-in and the ball is deflected by B1. With the ball bouncing freely on the floor, an official inadvertently blows his whistle.
1) to whom the ball is awarded;
2) shall the shot clock reset ?
3) how the statistician register this possession ? ...

This case is a assemblage of a recent rule ( team control ) with a recent new definition ( inadvertent whistle ): when an inadvertent whistle occurs and there was no player or team control at the time of the whistle the shot clock operator shall stop the timing device and reset the shot clock.
The ball is awarded to Team A according to the alternating procedure.
The statistician work is only to register the two deflections, because the same original possession is being yet played.

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Basketball 2008 Olympic Games: USA vs Spain

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Recent News: Teams Mexico & Puerto Rico Fire's up their Engines

The first runner ups of the countries professional league southern conference, Halcones UV Córdoba, was the first to face Team Mexico as it starts a series of exhibition games in preparation for the 2008 Centrobasket Championship; it will be played from the 27th to the 31st of August, simultaneously at Cancun and Xetumal, Mexico.

Team Mexico has not spared anything and is bringing to this championship a minor galaxy of basketball stars: Horacio Llamas, Enrique Zúñiga, Omar Quintero, Gustavo Ayón, Arim Solares, and, last but not least, a Jesús Hiram "El Chino" López, of the Halcones UV Córdoba. There are also rumors that Eduardo Najera will also be joining the team.

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They are lead by head coach Silvio Santander. At Veracruz, they faced, on the 15th of August, the Halcones Rojos, and finally will close their exhibition tour by facing the twice champions of the LNBP, Halcones UV Xalapa.

On another note, Team Puerto Rico has also commenced training for the same event after their attempt to qualify for the Olympic Games at Beijing, China, failed.

Carlos Arroyo, José Juan Barea, Filiberto Rivera, Larry Ayuso, Javier Mojica, Carmelo Lee, Joel Jones, Alex Falcón, Luis Villafañe and Peter John Ramos have said that they will stay and be part of Team Puerto Rico for this edition of the Centrobasket Championship.

Daniel Santiago, Ricky Sánchez will not be playing the Centrobasket. The first one said he had other appointments to attend and the second will have to stay behind due to an injury. The rest of the team is still in the works but it is known that Andrés Rodríguez, Alí Berdiel, Roberto Nieves, David Huertas, Ángel Vasallo, Ángelo Reyes, Ángel “Piwi” García, Ángel “Buster” Figueroa, Jorge Bryan Díaz, Víctor Dávila and Ángel Rosa have been invited to the practice sessions.

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Statistician's Digest: Assist to a Dunk or to a Three-pointer

"...Talking about dunks & stats, I value passing as one of the most important skills in basketball. I was wondering if there are in the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System any good passing statistics analysis rules based in the excellent post from today about the rebounds qualification in disputed, undisputed, by zones, number of players, etc.
For example, is the same a close assist to a dunk than an assist for an open three pointer ? How we can get an idea of how good our players are at passing the ball which leads to a score ? ...

An opening statement to begin, when working with databases which are based on how often players pass the ball, you must take into account that this data doesn't qualify how good the passes are.

According to our database the percent of passes that ended up in assists oscillates between ranges of 16.50% and 17.50% from the total number of passes, being the big men at the head of the list, what make me doubt about the value of this data.

In the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System we calculate the player's number of passes based on his assists and not vice versa. We have not players with higher percentages - than the referred above - of assists per pass in our archives, and the differences are simply a factor of his team's game pace.

Meanwhile I prepare the second part of this answer, or any other add an opinion, look at this 'Pass Rating' applied by our eBA System, which recompense the passer of a close assist and a dunk assist, because I think that passes were the principal supply to the basket:

Pass Rating = ( 3pt AST + 2pt Jump AST + ( 2*Close AST )+ ( 4*Dunk AST ) - ( 2* Pass T/O ) ) / ( minutes played / 40 or 48 )

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Books Review: Our eBA Best Seller 6 Months Ago

The Assist: Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives
By: Neil Swidey

In this engaging book about Boston's Charlestown High School basketball team, Swidey, a staff writer for the Boston Globe Magazine, explains that being part of the Charlestown program was no guarantee that a kid would become a success.... But dropping out of the program dramatically increased the odds that he wouldn't.

Head coach Jack O'Brien benefited from the team aside from its gaudy won-loss record. Unmarried and with a shattered family history, O'Brien found that the rigid team structure... offered the trappings of home. Like a concerned parent, O'Brien worked year-round to keep his kids away from the overwhelming daily wave of crime and bad influences and into the security of a college-educated future.

Swidey masterfully shows over the course of two seasons the struggle O'Brien and his players face in maintaining success on and off the court. The coach observes the lives of his two star players, Ridley Johnson and Jason Hood White, go in very different directions after they land out-of-state college scholarships.
Swidey expertly examines the slippery slope of Charlestown's success, tying it into Boston's disastrous busing scandal and an underwhelming legal system that perpetuates crime, while he builds narrative momentum and details his subjects with the touch of a skilled novelist.

This is a prodigiously reported, compulsively readable book that readers (sport fans or not) will savor.

Hardcover: 358 pages
Publisher: PublicAffairs; 1 edition (January 7, 2008)
Language: English

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Basketball Software:
FIBA Releases Free Software for Live Game Statistics Tracking:

FIBA announced on Thursday the launch of FIBA LiveStats, a new free-to-download computer program that allows any basketball association, club or fan to publish live results and game statistics to any website in the world from any personal computer.

"It is my pleasure to announce the release of FIBA LiveStats. This exciting new basketball software will enable anyone to capture game data and statistics in a professional way and provide printouts to teams, media representatives and organizers,” said FIBA secretary general and IOC member Patrick Baumann in a release. “The webcast functionality will allow fans the opportunity to follow basketball games online through their favourite club or organization's websites."

The software was created by SportingPulse, an Australian network that is responsible for distributing similar statistical software to several major professional sports leagues in the Oceania region. The SportingPulse network is made up of more than 4,000 leagues, 30,000 clubs, 180 teams and two million members.

"FIBA and SportingPulse are committed to bringing professional sports coverage to grassroots sports and improving the online experience for basketball players and supporters,” said SportingPulse CEO Nick Maywald in a statement. “FIBA LiveStats has already been a big hit with basketball fans. The technology allows coverage of games on all levels -- from junior games to elite championships."

In addition to FIBA LiveStats, the sports management software FIBA Organizer was launched in November 2006 to every organization within FIBA's 213 national federations.

To download FIBA LiveStats and FIBA Organizer, visit www.fibaorganizer.com.

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One-on-one: A Dream Realized with Jorge Garbajosa:

"My role in the Spanish team in these Olympics Games at Beijing has changed and I accept it with all the humility and sobriety. I have to do the best I can when I am on the court. If I play 40 minutes I will give everything I have just as if I play one minute."

"The Olympics is something very special for any athlete in the world, regardless of the sport you play in. Imagine when you have not been able to play for many months. For me to be here is a dream realized. It was one of my aims. I have worked very hard. Without the support from the Spanish Basketball Federation, from my team-mates and from my new club (BC Khimki in Russia), I wouldn't have made it."

"Everybody in the Spanish team knew it was going to be hard work. We are having problems with certain types of defenses. The important thing is that we learn and get better game by game against very difficult opponents.
We have proved that we have a lot of confidence in ourselves and in our potential, but we respect all of our opponents."

"The game against Team USA is a game we are looking forward to playing just as any of the other games we have played. It's a beautiful contest because you are playing at the Olympics against a team made up of professional NBA players. But it's worth just two points as the rest of the games. We are enthusiastic about this game just we were enthusiastic about our previous games and about our future games", Jorge said after today’s 72-59 win over Germany.

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Statistician's Digest: A Generalized Continuous Typology Of Playing Styles

From The Arbitrarian
Download source here: NBA playing style spectrum

"...To identify each player’s style is conceptually simple, but computationally somewhat more complex. ..."

"... These numbers are interesting on their own, but for the calculation of an index of style, they require further manipulation. In the league as a whole, the Scorer percentage is around 50%, the Perimeter percentage around 20%, and Interior 30%. Thus, if using these percentages, the vast majority of players would appear to be very scoring-centered. My concern here, in constructing a useful index, is to identify player propensities relative to other players, and for that, I calculate the percentile of each player’s percentages. ..."

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Statistician's Digest: Free Throws ~ Shouting to the Shooter

"...A1 is in act of a free throw shooting when an opponent attempts to distract him by shouting loudly or stamping feet heavily of the floor.
Which is the statistical rules if the shot is successful and / or unsuccessful ? ...

Rule Fundamental: While the player is in the act of shooting for free-throws, opponents shall not be permitted to disconcert that player by actions such as waving a hand(s), shouting loudly, stamping feet heavily or clapping hands near the shooter.

Rule Interpretation: To do so may result in a technical foul if the shooter is disadvantaged by the action, or a warning if the shooter is not disadvantaged.
In this scenery if the shot is successful a warning shall be given to the opponent and shall be communicated to coach B. This warning shall apply to all players of team B for the remainder of the game for the similar behaviour.
But if the try is unsuccessful a technical foul may be charged to shouter.

eBA Statistical Registration: Nothing in the first case - out of the free-throw made, but an unforced turnover and the technical foul committed shall be registered against the shouter in the second case.

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Basketball 2008 Olympic Games: USA vs China

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