Papers on how sport actually works

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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Name	Comment	Title	Author(s)	Year	Field	Key Finding	Why It Matters	Difficulty
1The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random Sequences	Ruined '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 Sequences	Thomas Gilovich, Robert Vallone, Amos Tversky	1985	Cognitive psychology / sports statistics	Players and fans see streaks in shooting data that are statistically indistinguishable from random sequences.	Foundational paper for every argument about clutch shooters that follows	Moderate, some stats background helps
2Basketball, Networks, and Traded Assets: An Analysis of the Evolving Give-and-Go	n/a	Basketball, Networks, and Traded Assets: An Analysis of the Evolving Give-and-Go	Corrected below	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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