Yago Colás

Numbers Don't Lie

New Adventures in Counting and What Counts in Basketball Analytics

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Produktbeschreibung

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.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 165mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9781496216144
• ISBN-10: 1496216148
• Artikelnr.: 59180292

Autorenporträt

Yago Colás is the author of Ball Don’t Lie! Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball. Currently an independent researcher and writer, he previously taught literature and cultural studies at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Two Baskets
Introductory Interlude—Records
Part 1. Counting
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. What Counts
10. Approaching Basketball Experience
11. The Ethics of Understanding Basketball
Interlude—Basketball Supernatural
12. Feeling Basketball
13. Counting What Counts in Basketball
Coda: When Counting Counts
Notes
Bibliography
Index