The aim of the present study was to identify the game-related statistics that allow discriminating between starters and nonstarter players in women's basketball when related to winning or losing games and best or worst teams. The sample comprised all 216 regular season games from the 2005 Women's National Basketball Association League (WNBA). The game-related statistics included were 2- and 3- ...

Anthropometry is essential to understand the predisposition of an athlete practice a specific sporting activity, assess their fitness, and in association with functional parameters, identify any correlations between anthropometric profile sport performance. Here, we present profiles athletes Italian national teams, who represented Italy 2019-2020 competitive season following sports: artistic (n...

We present evidence, based on play-by-play data from all 6087 games from the 2006/07– 2009/10 seasons of the National Basketball Association (NBA), that basketball scoring is well described by a continuous-time anti-persistent random walk. The time intervals between successive scoring events follow an exponential distribution, with essentially no memory between different scoring intervals. By i...

In the present study, field goal shooting skills of female basketball players were assessed in the background to their reasoning ability. The sample consists of 100 female intercollegiate basketball players (age = 21.05±1.67 yrs.). Shooting skills reasoning ability were assessed by Johnson’s “Basketball Field Goal Speed Shooting Test” and Mixed Type Group Test of Intelligence prepared by Mehr...

Basketball is constantly booming with China’s material and cultural levels development. And basketball reserve personnel quantity and quality stand for a nation basketball level. On the current all countries basketball levels rapidly development situation in the world, cultivation of basketball reserve personnel has become an indispensible condition to be in an invincible position in intense ba...

This study aims to discuss the application value of KMC algorithm optimized by heuristic method in basketball big data analysis and visual management. Because is too complicated incomplete, extraction information not direct effective enough. Based on metaheuristic K-Means clustering (KMC) algorithm, weights genetic are introduced optimize it, University California at Irvine (UCI) set applied an...

The main aims of the study were: to explore the latent structure of the construct of hardiness at Croatian top basketball players and to gain an understanding of the relationship between obtained hardiness dimensions and situation-related efficacy in basketball. Situation efficacy of individual basketball players in top teams is linked to the constellation of a number of relevant anthropologica...

In contemporary society, so as to enhance Chinese basketball level, reform of Chinese basketball professionalization has been constantly deepened, while basketball clubs development is the internal impetus of Chinese basketball undertakings. The paper analyses specific situation of Chinese basketball clubs, and finds that most of Chinese sports clubs are sponsored and constructed by good corpor...

Eight international caliber wheelchair male athletes (3 basketball, 5 distance track) performed an all-out propulsion effort from a standing start for 10 seconds on a wheelchair ergometer. Comparisons between the basketball and track athletes on linear wheelchair and push rim velocity during the first 3 pushes and the peak value indicated that the basketball players had a significantly (p less ...

Teams are groups of people who work together to achieve a common goal. Maybe you play on sports team, perform in school plays, or group project for class. These all examples teams. You may have heard your coach teacher talk about the importance teamwork and being good teammate. Teamwork is what teams do maximize their chances achieving goals, like winning basketball game, putting stellar play, ...