Would some of the top players in the NBA still dominate the statistics if their teammates had the same amount of court time?
Author
Mullen-Ramdeen, Shuan
Date
2014Type
Thesis
Publisher
Cardiff Metropolitan University
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The aim of this study was to manipulate scraped data from the NBA season
2012-2013 to determine if some athletes could statistically match the player with the
largest amount of court time over the season’s statistics if they were to have had the
same amount. The box-score statistics were analysed alongside a selection of
adapted statistics. The same was a choice of 6 teams from the NBA, one of which
being a team who won their division, whilst another was a team that did not have a
strong season. The other 4 teams were chosen at random to analyse. The initial part
of the analysis identified that the athletes that had the most amount of court time
would dominate the offensive front with all athletes from each of the 6 teams still
being highest on the points per game (field goals made) average regardless of
whether their teammates had shared the same amount of court time. On the flipside
of this, it also uncovered that some athletes would flourish in their defensive
capabilities if they were given the chance. The weighted value of offensive and
defensive outputs that players from the winning team indicated that their focus was
aimed at defending better in each game than their opponents (0.15%), something in
which the less successful team was unable to do falling below their opponents in
both their offensive and defensive output. For that reason the theory from the study
raised the question of whether defence is the key to any teams success and if that is
the case, playing the athlete that scores the most points for the most minutes
throughout the season may not be the best way for some teams to approach their
season if they are not to have an athlete that can contribute hugely to both their
offensive and defensive duties.
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CARDIFF SCHOOL OF SPORT
DERGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS
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