Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis | 
 enlarge | Author: Dean Oliver
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 120149
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 361
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1.4
ISBN: 1574886886
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781574886887
ASIN: 1574886886
Publication Date: November 9, 2004
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Product Description
Journey "inside the numbers" for an exceptional set of statistical tools and rules that can help explain the winning, or losing, ways of a basketball team. Basketball on Paper doesn?t diagram plays or explain how players get in shape, but instead demonstrates how to interpret player and team performance.
Dean Oliver highlights general strategies for teams when they?re winning or losing and what aspects should be the focus in either situation. He describes and quantifies the jobs of team leaders and role players, then discusses the interactions between players and how to achieve the best fit. Oliver conceptualizes the meaning of teamwork and how to quantify the value of different types of players working together. He examines historically successful NBA teams and identifies what made them so successful: individual talent, a system of putting players together, or good coaching.
Oliver then uses these statistical tools and case studies to evaluate the best players in history, such as Magic Johnson, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, and Charles Barkley and how they contributed to their teams? success. He does the same for some of the NBA?s "oddball" players-Manute Bol, Muggsy Bogues, and Dennis Rodman and for the WNBA?s top players.
Basketball on Paper is unique in its incorporation of business and analytical concepts within the context of basketball to measure the value of players in a cooperative setting. Whether you?re looking for strategies or new ideas to throw out while watching the ballgame at a sports bar, Dean Oliver?sBasketball on Paper will give you amazing new insights into teamwork, coaching, and success.
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