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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"National Basketball Association"”.
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Essays on the Economics of the National Basketball Association (N.B.A.): Testing for Inefficiencies in the N.B.A. Labor Market
… each examine the labor market for players in the National Basketball Association (N.B.A.). Neoclassical economics often incorporate models that assume individuals are utility-maximizing agents who behave rationally. However, many studies in the field of behavioral economics have found evidence of …
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The Effect of Professional Sports on Local Government
… include examples from Major League Baseball, the National Football League, and the National Basketball Association, and demonstrates the effect that each had on their local government.
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Positive Psychology in the NCAA: Amplifying the Power and Uplifting the Voices of Student Athletes In Multiple Mental Health Studies
<p>Mental health resources and programming in the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) continues to expand in research and implementation in collegiate athletic departments of all institutions. This study sought to respond to and expand on dissertation research conducted by Dr. Heather …
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A shirking model of NBA players.
As guaranteed National Basketball Association (NBA) contract salary amounts continuously increase there is a strong possibility of shirking due to difficulty in modeling contracts based upon future performance. Based on a 5-year panel of 121 NBA players this paper uses two stage least squares …
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THE EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON FRANCHISE SUCCESS IN THE NBA'S DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE: AN APPLICATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY
In 2001 the National Basketball Association (NBA) formed its own minor league: The National Basketball Development League (D-League). The D-League was originally designed as a vertical extension of the NBA and to act as a farm-system for the NBA. There has been instability in the make-up of the …
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What are the odds? A preliminary test of a theoretical model of sports team effectiveness
… variables help explain winning in professional basketball. The value of the STE model in predicting the winner of basketball games was compared to already-existing predictors of winning. Archival data from 435 games from the 2016-2017 season of the National Basketball Association (NBA) were …
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The Effect of NBA Free Agency on Player Utility
<p>Observably, free agents in the National Basketball Association often make misguided decisions during the free agency period. These decisions may have a direct effect on a player’s performance and salary, affecting their overall utility. Research exists confirming that moving through free agency …
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"Cause I'm Young and I'm Black and My Hat's Real Low": Race, Hip-Hop, and Transformations in the NBA During the Late 1990s and Early 2000s
… race have been of particular importance to the National Basketball Association (NBA) since African Americans compromise 77 percent of the league's players. As such, this work examines the ways in which the media and the NBA responded to and managed the new generation of black players during the …
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Using deep learning to understand patterns of player movement in basketball
National Basketball Association (NBA) coaches spend a great deal of time analyzing the effectiveness of various strategies. Typically, this entails countless hours pouring over videos of games, and trying to derive generalizable conclusions from hundreds of thousands of examples. In this thesis, we …
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Does locality predict sport fandom?: an examination of local, non-local, and distant nba fans in the United States and China
… their business to overseas markets, and the National Basketball Association (NBA) has stood at the forefront of this expansion process. Using an online survey, the current study examines the differences between NBA local fans (American fans who like the local NBA team), non-local fans …
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Assessing the hotel requirements of professional sports teams for the hotel industry
… the hotel industry. Baseball, football, and basketball were the top three popular sports in terms of attendance in 1988-1990 in the United States; therefore, the sample for this study was 28 Major League Baseball teams, 28 National Football League (NFL) teams, and 27 National Basketball …
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Newspaper framing of indicted U.S. athletes: Evaluating orientation, prominence and proximity
… by analyzing media coverage from a common national newspaper and through various newspapers local to the athlete’s team or the area where the alleged crime took place.The overarching research question of this study is the following: To what extent do prominence, proximity and orientation …
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NBA Machine Learning for Game Outcome Prediction
This thesis studies the problem of predicting National Basketball Association (NBA) gameoutcomes using only information available prior to tip-off. While team-level rating systems such as Elo provide a strong baseline for game prediction, they do not fully account for game-to-game variation in …
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Essays in labor economics
… value of receiving the first draft pick in the National Basketball Association?, and (2) Do teams lose intentionally to secure higher draft positions? We answer the first question by adjusting for the probability of winning the lottery using a propensity score methodology. The estimates indicate …
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Building an on-ball screen dataset using supervised and unsupervised learning
… different professional sporting leagues. In the National Basketball Association (NBA), cameras were installed in arenas to track player and ball movements. Movement tracking data enabled analysts and researchers to explore locations of players during in-game events, instead of providing insights …
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Sports analytics and optimization for team formation problems
… clustering algorithm to classify players in the National Basketball Association (NBA) into archetypes. Next, drawing upon classical Team Formation Problem (TFP) literature, we integrate these archetypes, or team roles, into a nonlinear mixed-integer programming model that is the first to consider …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Sport
… and star player effects on attendance in the National Basketball Association (NBA). New Evidence of Salary Discrimination in Major League Baseball Salary discrimination in MLB has largely been discarded as a research topic. However traditional quantitative methods (particularly least squares …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… Multiple Cause-of-Death Mortality Data from the National Vital Statistics System of the National Center for Health Statistics from 1979-1988, the effect is identified in two ways: a regression discontinuity design (RDD) that exploits discrete time changes in the Spring and Fall; and a fixed …