Game Indicators Determining Sports Performance in the NBA

• Authors: Kazimierz Mikołajec , Adam Maszczyk , Tomasz Zając
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main goal of the present study was to identify basketball game performance indicators which best determine sports level in the National Basketball Association (NBA) league. The research material consisted of all NBA game statistics at the turn of eight seasons (2003-11) and included 52 performance variables. Through detailed analysis the variables with high influence on game effectiveness were selected for final procedures. It has been proven that a limited number of factors, mostly offensive, determines sports performance in the NBA. The most critical indicators are: Win%, Offensive EFF, 3rd Quarter PPG, Win% CG, Avg Fauls and Avg Steals. In practical applications these results connected with top teams and elite players may help coaches to design better training programs.

Keywords

EN

basketball; NBA; performance variables; regression model; optimization

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Journal of Human Kinetics
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 145-151

Dates

published

1 - 06 - 2013

online

05 - 07 - 2013

Contributors

author

Kazimierz Mikołajec

• Department of TeamSports, Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, 40-065 Katowice, Mikolowska Str. 72a Poland, Phone: [phone]

author

Adam Maszczyk

• Department of Sports Theory, Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, Poland

author

Tomasz Zając

• Human Performance Laboratory, Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/hukin-2013-0035