Numbers don't lie : new adventures incounting and what counts in basketball analytics / / Yago Colás

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808094203321
• Autore: Colás Santiago <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• ISBN: 1-4962-2346-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 pages)
• Disciplina: 796.323640979494
• Soggetti: Basketball - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introductory Interlude-Records -- Part 1 -- 1. The Science of Moving Dots -- Interlude-Rulers -- 2. The Culture of Moving Dots -- Interlude-Numbers -- 3. Counting, America's Game -- Interlude-Thermometers -- 4. Counting America's Bodies -- Interlude-My Basketball Soul -- 5. Counting for Character -- Interlude-One on One -- 6. Counting for Competition -- Interlude-Measuring Sticks -- 7. Counting for Commerce in College Basketball -- Interlude-Magic -- 8. Counting for Commerce in the NBA -- Interlude-Basketball Jesus -- 9. The Work of Moving Dots -- Part 2 -- 10. Approaching Basketball Experience -- 11. The Ethics of Understanding Basketball -- Interlude-Basketball Supernatural -- 12. Feeling Basketball -- 13. Counting What Counts in Basketball -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Numbers Don't Lie gives readers a multilayered understanding of basketball analytics on its own terms, describes the historical and contemporary conditions in basketball culture, science, and society that have facilitated the rise of basketball analytics, and shows the varying impact of basketball analytics..