Post by JP HOOPS on Aug 22, 2012 11:57:25 GMT -5
www.upct.es/~beside/Textos/MMCoachingSystem.pdf
The MagicMetric is a player rating system invented by Dick Mays and Jeff Gantner, two friends who were both mathematicians and basketball enthusiasts. The reason the metric was invented was to remove arguments about playing time among players on an Industrial League basketball team. Everyone on the team had paid $50 and there was a logical argument that all players deserved equal playing time for their money. To be competitive, the best players needed to be on the court a higher percentage of the time. If some players were to get more playing time than others, then there had to be a justification for it.
Dick and Jeff researched existing metrics, such as TENDEX, and were surprised to discover very little formal reasoning was used to determine the relative value of the various types of contribution on the basketball court. Being mathematicians, Dick and Jeff created their own measurement, called the Magic Metric, to be used to value the contributions of players relative to each other.
www.upct.es/~beside/Textos/MMCoachingSystem.pdf
The MagicMetric is a player rating system invented by Dick Mays and Jeff Gantner, two friends who were both mathematicians and basketball enthusiasts. The reason the metric was invented was to remove arguments about playing time among players on an Industrial League basketball team. Everyone on the team had paid $50 and there was a logical argument that all players deserved equal playing time for their money. To be competitive, the best players needed to be on the court a higher percentage of the time. If some players were to get more playing time than others, then there had to be a justification for it.
Dick and Jeff researched existing metrics, such as TENDEX, and were surprised to discover very little formal reasoning was used to determine the relative value of the various types of contribution on the basketball court. Being mathematicians, Dick and Jeff created their own measurement, called the Magic Metric, to be used to value the contributions of players relative to each other.
www.upct.es/~beside/Textos/MMCoachingSystem.pdf