Using Box-Scores to Determine a Position's Contribution to Winning Basketball Games

Basketball is a sport that has become increasingly popular world-wide. At the professional level it is a game in which each of the five positions has a specific responsibility that requires unique skills. It seems likely that it would be valuable for coaches to know which skills for each position are most conducive to winning. Knowing which skills to develop for each position could help coaches optimize each player's ability by customizing practice to contain drills that develop the most important skills for each position that would in turn improve the team's overall ability. Through the use of Bayesian hierarchical modeling and NBA box-score performance categories, this project will determine how each position needs to perform in order for their team to be successful.

Name thesis:degree_name

MS

Grantor dc:publisher

Brigham Young University - Provo

Author dc:creator

• Page, Garritt L.

• Bayesian Hierarchical Model
• Statistics and Probability

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/656

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarsarchive.byu.edu:etd-1655