Oliver, Dean [Verfasser]:
Basketball on paper : rules and tools for performance analysis / Dean Oliver. - 1st edition. - Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, Inc., 2004. - xvi, 376 Seiten. - 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 hisstorical regression
ISBN 978-1-57488-688-7 kartoniert : EUR 14,80