Abhandlungen darüber, wie Sport tatsächlich funktioniert
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Abhandlungen darüber, wie Sport tatsächlich funktioniert

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Abhandlungen darüber, wie Sport tatsächlich funktioniert

Luis Calderon
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Not about Miami, not about coffee, not about travel tech (for once). Just the research I keep coming back to when I want to argue about basketball with actual data instead of vibes. Some of this is decades old, some is fresh off a stats conference, all of it survives the pick-and-roll test: does it explain something simple and efficient, or is it just flash. Filed here so I stop re-Googling the same DOIs.

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Abhandlungen darüber, wie Sport tatsächlich funktioniert — 2 items
NameCommentTitleAuthor(s)YearFieldKey FindingWhy It MattersDifficulty
1The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random SequencesRuined 'he's heating up' for me at every pickup run since. Still say it anyway.The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random SequencesThomas Gilovich, Robert Vallone, Amos Tversky1985Cognitive psychology / sports statisticsPlayers and fans see streaks in shooting data that are statistically indistinguishable from random sequences.Foundational paper for every argument about clutch shooters that followsModerate, some stats background helps
2Basketball, Networks, and Traded Assets: An Analysis of the Evolving Give-and-Gon/aBasketball, Networks, and Traded Assets: An Analysis of the Evolving Give-and-GoCorrected belown/an/an/an/an/a