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Effects of starting score-line, game location, and quality of opposition in basketball quarter score
- Source :
- European Journal of Sport Science. 10:391-396
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2010.
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Abstract
- In several team sports, the game starting score-line may be understood as a measure of performance accomplishment and hence might have an effect on players' subsequent efforts. The aim of this study was to identify the effect of the starting score-line, game location, and quality of opposition on basketball game quarter final score. The sample comprised 504 game quarters from the Spanish Basketball Professional League and these were classified as balanced (difference in scores equal of 8 points or less, n=194) and unbalanced (difference in scores of more than 8 points, n=310) using k-means cluster procedures. The effects of the predictor variables on game quarter outcome (difference between points scored and points received) in the whole game and in the second, third, and fourth game quarters were analysed using linear regression analysis. The starting game quarter score-line was only significant in unbalanced situations with very similar effects among different game quarters. The greater the dif...
- Subjects :
- Basketball
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Opposition (politics)
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Sample (statistics)
General Medicine
League
Quarter (United States coin)
Outcome (game theory)
Statistics
Linear regression
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Quality (business)
Psychology
human activities
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15367290 and 17461391
- Volume :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Journal of Sport Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........1fbf259807afeec769b2a99814d61378