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' Argentina National Basketball Team '

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Friday Press Clippings:
Decision-making of Spanish Female Basketball Team Players
While They are Competing

From Revista de Psicología del Deporte
By Ana Concepción Jiménez Sánchez, Alberto Lorenzo Calvo,
Pedro Sáenz-López Buñuel & Sergio José Ibáñez Godoy
Download source here: ' Decision-making of Spanish Female Basketball Team Players While They are Competing '

"... Those sports requiring cooperation and opposition clearly reflect the constant decision-making by each and every player who takes part in each phase of the game.

The whole development of the sports competition gives rise to situations where the responses, the motor actions that are performed, are generated after a mental process involving a perceptive and decisive capacity. “Decision” means to choose, consciously, from different possible actions. ..."

"... As far as the interview is concerned, we can see that every female basketball player has a high level of experience and success. Most of them think that they have taken good training in terms of decision-making and that their coaches have helped them, although some declare this is an innate ability.

Players say they feel quite confident when they must resolve 1x1 situations, as well as they state it is necessary to ‘read’ the defense and, consequently, decide what to do. Outside players, who also make other moves to throw, are important in these situations.

Centers prefer beginning a 1x1 attack with their back to the basket. As for picks, they think their decisive capacity must be improved. All of them state it is essential to ..."

"... At the moment of setting a pick for someone during a match, the fact that playmakers and forwards have played for a longer time than centers and that they have shown a wider variety of actions ... .

As regards the way players face the picks and their subsequent moves, these also match up with conclusions by Domínguez and Refoyo (2008) and Zamora, Hidalgo, Cárdenas and Ocaña (2007). As for the kind of defense in a pick situation, the defensive change stands out: it shows a higher frequency than other researches, such as those by Domínguez and Refoyo (2008) and Remmert (2003). ..."

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February Cover ~ Basketball Beautiful Faces:
CSKA Dance Team 2009-2010 from Moscow, Russia !

Photograph: Ohad Redlich Gallery

Our Basketball Beautiful Faces of February 2010 Cover
from the excellent Photograph Gallery by Ohad Redlich

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This Month eBA Store Bestseller:

Personal Foul: A First-Person Account
of the Scandal that Rocked the NBA
by Tim Donaghy

The media has speculated and sports fans have debated, but until now no one has known the real story. Personal Foul takes an in-depth look at former NBA referee Tim Donaghy and the betting scandal that rocked professional basketball.


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eBA 2010 Best Basketball Clip Candidate

' Overtime at Buffalo Wild Wings '

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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
Which is the Real Value of a Steal ?

"... Some analysis systems works upon the argument by which steals are the best defensive play there is, and that it's value will show up on the offensive end, based on the theory that steals lead to easy baskets.

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Now, my question is which is the real value of a steal from the point of view that the confirmed and permanent risking for steals costs the defense about as many points defensively ( in open shots and help fouls ) as they get in easy baskets from successfully stealing the ball and converting. ..."

An interesting question and here you have some data for the discussion:
The eBA Basketball Statistics Archives tell us that players who get steals are the most valuable when they are forwards and centers or are players who don't shoot a lot. Nevertheless, that said, I think that players who get steals, on average, tend to be valuable at EVERY position and careless of how much they shoot.

With reference to those players who are "permanent risking for steals", take into account that players who gamble may also hurt their team, but that does not identify the main part of players who get lots of steals. And as we stated at the eBA Clinics last year, to analyze team statistics to measure the value of players ONLY with certain attributes may lead to deceptive results.

See in our forum the 'basketball steals' topics and the exposition "Basketball Steals Analysis" at eBA ONLINE.

All the terms in this answer are explained widely at The Global Basketball Encyclopedia and in eBA ONLINE.

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eBA 2010 Best Basketball Clip Candidate

' It's on Me for my Brotherhood ' with Dwight Howard and Derrick Rose !

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Friday Press Clippings:
Relationship between the Pedagogical Variables
of Coaching a Mini-Basketball Team

From Revista de Psicología del Deporte
By María Cañadas, Isabel Parejo, Sergio J. Ibáñez, Javier García, & Sebastian Feu
Download source here: ' Relationship between the Pedagogical Variables of Coaching a Mini-Basketball Team '

"... This study arises from the importance of analyzing the coaching process and knowing how to coach in the first stages of sports initiation.

The purpose of this study was to analyze how a basketball coach establishes teaching the game phases in youth categories, through the relationship between the pedagogical variables that define each of the
coaching tasks. ..."

"... The importance of analyzing coaching situations resides in the fact that these situations imply practice conditions through
which players acquire and execute sportlearning content. The teaching of team sports receives much attention by researchers.

There is a need to know how the processes of teaching a sport, both in the educational environment as well as the athletic environment, although it appears that until now there have not been clear, conclusive responses. Basketball is a sport of cooperation and opposition in which there are two game phases which are determined by possession of the ball. ..."

"... There are principles for sport teaching that help coaches design training tasks. The majority of these are based on theoretical
aspects, which presents a problem when trying to apply them to real training situations. For that reason, experts propose the analysis of the training process with the goal of generating knowledge that arises from practice. ..."

"... Statistical analysis. For the statistical analysis, the computer packet SPSS 15.0 was utilized. First, a descriptive analysis of the game phase variable was carried out.

To analyze the relationship between the variables, a non-parametric inferential analysis (chi -square and cont ingency coefficient) was carried out. Through the value from the corrected standardized
residuals (RAS), the differences between the variables were interpreted (>|1.96|)...."

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To read Today's 'Press Clippings' in Spanish, click this week above on the 'Español' tab or afterwards click here: ' Método objetivo para analizar dos modelos de la línea de tres puntos en minibasket ' by Arias Estero, J.L.; Argudo Iturriaga, F.M. and Alonso Roque, J.I. .

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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Concepts:
About the Points Off Turnovers Concept

More of the third of all regular season games played, are "decided by" points off turnovers. When we Analyze a Basketball game and it is said here that turnover scores were the "deciding factor" in a game, eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System means that the turnover points led to one team wining the game and the other losing, and without such turnovers, the won-lost result have been switched.

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Points are attributable to turnovers in one of two ways - directly or indirectly. By "directly" leading to a score, eBA System mean that a fumble recovery or interception was returned for a fast break attack, and a score in the first 4/6 seconds of the shooting clock ( see the Shot Clock ).

Consequently, by "indirectly" leading to points, we mean that a fumble recovery or interception return immediately led to a set offense play which culminated in a field goal in the second sequence of the shooting clock, after 6/8 seconds play till 24; the turnover did not produce any points in and of itself, but the opponent team did score on the ensuing offensive play.

( Excerpt from the introduction to my exposition "Points Off Turnovers" at the eBA Basketball Statistics Clinics. )

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The Best Show in the World ! NBA Games Top 10 Plays of the 13th. Week !

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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
About the Basketball Time Played Statistical Registration

"... Another situation about time played: before a single free throw is attempted, A1 enters the game. The free throw is missed, and:
1.- the ball bounces out of bounds untouched and the clock never starts, or
2.- the ball is touched, the clock runs for three seconds, and the ball is knocked out of bounds before anyone gains control. A1 is substituted and leaves the game.
How are registered the statistics of the time played by A1 in this play ? ..."

Photograph: Cornell

eBA Basketball Statistical Registration=
In the case "1.- the ball bounces out of bounds untouched and the clock never starts.", A1 IS NOT charged with a game played.

In the case "2.- the ball is touched, the clock runs for three seconds, and the ball ......", A1 IS CHARGED with a game played because the clock started properly. Enter "0" under minutes played.

See in our forum the 'time played' topics and the exposition "Basketball Time Played Analysis" at eBA ONLINE.

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Great Basketball Moments ~ Great Basketball Games:
ESPN NBA Today Show Time Plays of the Year in 1993 !

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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
About the Available Rebounds and the Basketball Rebound Percentage

In the case that a team does miss a shot, it can prolong its possession and give itself an additional chance to score by rebounding its own misses. Team rebounds per game, team offensive rebounds per game, etc, are not a worthwhile stat, that a statistical myth:

Oreb% = Offensive Rebs / (Offensive Rebs + Opponent's Defensive Rebs)

In this way, we only measure how many rebounds a team catches based on what's available.

For example, if you use "team offensive rebounds per game," a team that shoots 30% is probably going to catch a lot of offensive rebounds, whether they're a good rebounding team or not.

If you use Oreb%, you're looking at a ratio of how many rebounds a team grabbed compared to how many were available.

Photograph: Vedia PhotoStream

Rebound percentage: The percentage of all available rebounds that a player or team catches, often fails into offensive rebound percentage and defensive rebound percentage.

This is a better measure of rebounding physical ability than rebound rate because it adjusts for game pace, although total rebound percentage is distortioned by the ratio of offensive and defensive rebound opportunities.

Therefore, a team with a really great defense will have its total rebound rate artificially exaggerated because defensive rebounds are much easier to catch.

Usually, rebound opportunities are estimated for players based on the team's rebound opportunities per minute, but play-by-play data as that used by the eBA System can identify a player's exact opportunities.

Rebound percentage for teams = Reb / ( Reb + OPPReb )

Rebound percentage for players =
( Reb * Min ) / (( TMReb + OPPReb ) / ( TMMin / 5 ))

( Excerpts from my Exposition at the eBA Clinics:
"The Basketball Rebound Analysis and Statistical Registration" )

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eBA 2010 Best Basketball Clip Candidate

' Michael vs. Michael ' with Jordan and Jordan !

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Friday Press Clippings:
Hayes, Adelman, and Morey: Taking Stats Seriously at 'The Dream Shake'

From The Dream Shake By Matt Oalxyz
Download source here: ' Hayes, Adelman, and Morey: Taking Stats Seriously '

"... Now, here is what I mean when I say we should take stats seriously. In some sense, this attitude is created from a failure to really believe what the statistics say.

Adjusted Plus-Minus and a variety of other metrics have consistently shown Chuck to be one of the best defensive players in the league over his career, and they really do mean that. They do not mean this in some nuanced way. They simply mean that, when Chuck is on the court, the Rockets defend better than when he is sitting on the bench.

And so, if one is tempted to say that Chuck will have trouble with Greg Oden, Andrew Bynum, or even guys like Gasol or Dirk (though let me say that everyone is going to have trouble with Dirk and Gasol, though I'd bet smaller, quicker players like Chuck might have an easier time against them, and I think this was born out in the playoffs last year), that temptation ultimately stems from a failure to take what the statistics say seriously. ..."

"... Combine all these variables and what do we have? According to a formula called "Expected Win Probability When Going For It," Pattani believed that the Patriots had an 80.5 chance of winning the game. By punting, they had a 79.0 chance of winning.

So my argument (made on Monday's podcast) that Bill Belichick should have "played the percentages and punted" was technically wrong. Barely. Belichick did play the percentages if you took those percentages at face value.

I am not disputing the numbers or the methods for achieving them. But ..."

"... Here's the issue: the stats say that the payoff was higher by going for it, and they really do say that, and to disregard them because they say something that seems to deny the assumptions you've made about football since your childhood is to utilize statistics merely as a way to confirm your own biases.

If we're going to accept some of what advanced stats have to say, we should be willing to accept what those same stats have to say about more general things. Yes, context matters, and if the statistical analysis keeps going against the grain and contradicting perceived experience, then something may be awry, but we should not jump to that conclusion just because the expected win tables contradict what your high school football coach or John Madden told you about winning games. ..."

"... We're conditioned, perhaps by the experience of the Stats Revolution in baseball, that there's going to be a great deal of resistance among the NBA establishment towards this sort of thinking.

I think, however, that the baseball experience was, for whatever reason, somewhat unique. Maybe it was unique because of the sort of people who own baseball clubs and comment on baseball teams, but in any case baseball statistics developed very differently from basketball stats.

Sabermetrics started with Bill James doing all of his statistics by himself, placing an ad in the Sporting News, and sending out binders of his abstracts to the people who responded to the ad. There was resistance to baseball stats from the start, enough that teams didn't start using computers to look at basic statistics until the mid-80s, and that was only (if I remember right) the White Sox, who employed STATS Inc.

Perhaps because baseball stat geeks went against the established "small ball" recipe for success, they encountered a lot of hostility, but it's not as if this view was unheard of. It was pioneered by Branch Rickey, utilized by Earl Weaver with great success, etc...."

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To read Today's 'Press Clippings' in Spanish, click this week above on the 'Español' tab or afterwards click here: ' Un método probabilístico para las clasificaciones estadísticas de jugadores en baloncesto ' por José Antonio Martínez García y Laura Martínez Caro .

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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Concepts:
The Basketball Statistician's Digest ~ The Formula TENDEX

TENDEX - by Dave Heeren (1988): The TENDEX is one the coefficients of player efficiency evaluation more used by the Basketball coaches, and was the basis of the work of the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System, created in the same year, and between the first systems in apply this evaluation mean.

This coefficient was developed by Dave Heeren in 1988 and is the methodological basis of an annual publication (Basketball Abstract) where the efficiency of all the players of the NBA are evaluated.

Tendex=
Points Made + Total Rebounds + Assists + Blocks + Steals
- Turnovers - Missed Shots

On 1990, Manley, one of the most renowned American Basketball analysts, applies the same linear equation -only changing the factor's order-, calling it Individual Efficiency to evaluate the efficiency o his players:

Individual Efficiency=
Points Made + Rebounds + Assists + Steals + Blocks
- Missed Shots - Free Throws missed - Turnovers

Currently the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System applies this formula in a different way developed in our eBA Statistics Clinics.

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The Best Show in the World ! NBA Games Top 10 Plays of the 12th. Week !

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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
About the Basketball Ball Control Statistical Measurement

"... What is the term "Ball Control" referred to in a basketball statistical conception ? How is it measured ? ..."

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Simply, when we refer to "Ball Control - BC" we are analyzing the relation between the assists and the turnovers.

Ball Control (BC) Calculation= Assists / Turnovers

This formula and the topic are broadly developed in the 4th. Module of the Basketball Statistics Register Course: Possessions Analysis.

See in our forum the 'ball control' topics and the exposition "Basketball Possessions Analysis" at eBA ONLINE.

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Great Basketball Moments ~ Great Basketball Games:
Gold for Greece at the Eurobasket 1987 !

Photograph: Vedia PhotoStream

Eurobasket 1987: Greece won the gold medal and the first international title for a Greek national team ever.
The Greek squad comprised of Panagiotis Giannakis, Panagiotis Fasoulas, Fanis Christodoulou, Nikos Stavropoulos, Argiris Kambouris, Nikos Linardos, Panagiotis Karatzas, Michalis Romanidis, Nikos Filippou, Liveris Andritsos, Memos Ioannou, the MVP of the tournament Nick Galis, and was coached by Kostas Politis.

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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
About the Created Field Goal Percentage - The Goal Percentage w/out Assists

The cFG% ( created Field Goal Percentage ) is a stat applied by the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System which has the same formula as the FG% ( click here to this topic ) except that only field goals which are unassisted and which occur at least 5 seconds after an offensive rebound are counted.

The Created FG% is an attempt to measure how well a player can create his own shot without the benefit of those situations. Therefore, when we make the calculation of this statistic, assisted shots and shots from offensive rebounds are not counted. The whole fundamental of this statistics is just being discussed in the eBA 2010 Clinic's live chat.

( Excerpts from my Exposition at the eBA Clinics:
"The Basketball Field Goals Analysis and Statistical Registration" )

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