NBA teams offer insights into building strategic network
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 2:44 am
Not sure if this is the right place so if there is a better home Mods, please move.
Came across this and thought there would be some on RealGm who would enjoy it. Not really up my alley but interesting from a basketball perspective.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-basketball ... s.html#jCp
Came across this and thought there would be some on RealGm who would enjoy it. Not really up my alley but interesting from a basketball perspective.
What started out as a project to teach undergraduate students about network analysis, turned into an in-depth study of whether it was possible to analyze a National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball team's strategic interactions as a network. Arizona State University researchers discovered it is possible to quantify both a team's cohesion and communication structure.
To evaluate the teams as networks, researchers graphed player positions and ball movement among players, as well as shots taken. Then, they used that data to find out whether network metrics can measure team decisions in a useful way. The study involved more than 1,000 ball movements and 100 ball sequences. "What that paper basically says is the 2010 data shows that the most successful teams are the ones that use a less predictable, more distributed offense and that connect their players more," said Fewell. "Those were the teams that had actually hired more elite players and allowed them to work together."
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-basketball ... s.html#jCp