Suppose A Player Averages A 23 Points Per Game

Coaching philosophies differ all over the world, from one sport to another. They are the central foundation to any good coach’s success in his/her respected programs. A coach’s philosophy does not only guide and lead the other members of the staff in the right direction, but it also allows each athlete to know what is expected of them, and how they should behave. By being aware of a coach’s philosophy, the athlete is fully responsible for his/her actions both on and off the field of play. In the words of the great Nick Saban, "It 's about what you control, every minute of every day. You always have to have a winning attitude and discipline, in practices, weight training, conditioning, in the classroom, in everything. It 's a process."

Baseball has always been a game of numbers. Fans of the game have grown up being able to recite them by heart; Ted Williams’.406 batting average, Joe DiMaggio’s 56 game hitting streak, Babe Ruth’s 714 home runs. These numbers hold a special place in the history of the game. Statistics such as batting average, wins, home runs, and runs batted in have always been there to tell us who the best players are. Your favorite player has a .300 batting average? He’s an all-star. He hit 40 home runs and batted in 120 runs? That’s a Most Valuable Player Award candidate. Your favorite team’s best pitcher won 20 games? He’s a Cy Young Award contender. These statistics have been used to evaluate player performance

Competition is a unique situation in life to analyze. If you can focus on the small details outside of the game, there’s a possibility that you can understand the way an athlete is performing and why a coach is behaving a certain way. In the heat of the moment, if not properly trained, one can not perform to their potential due to the pressure that the moment of competition can place on an individual. This can be just as much for coaches and how they react and act as much as it goes for player. Effective coaches know how to use the situation to their advantage and know what to do or how to react at the appropriate time. In this paper, I’ll examine the competition of the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh Titans and the St. Thomas Tommies in a NCAA Division 3 playoff game. I’m watching this game from the UW-Oshkosh side, so I will be observing the UW-Oshkosh football team for the most part. With this competition between UW-Oshkosh and St. Thomas, I’ll break down this paper into four talking points and the effects of said points. These four points are pre-competition routine, feedback and reinforcement by coach, game flow and interruptions and then other thoughts and factors that I noticed during the game.

In sports stats, you can’t decide the best players on a team by how they played in a shorter time |

Usually when people think of sports they usually think of Football, Baseball, Basketball, any sport that is widely broadcasted on television and sponsored around states and cities, and even countries; however, those are mainly the most popular sports. People interpret the word “sport” as a term that requires an abundance of endurance and energy, using physical and mental skills to further better themselves at said sport. There is a lot of controversy over whether high school marching band and drum corps is a sport, most people claiming that it doesn’t because it’s “elegant” and “more of a performance” still, aren’t all sports a performance? Coaches in most sports ask for the best and make a person work for their spot,

Since the beginning of the professional game, baseball owners and general managers have been looking for the best way to find talent and quantify a player's ability. The problem that always comes up is that there has been no definite way of quantifying talent. For decades the best way of finding players with ability to be successful pro players was to send “experts" to watch games to figure out if players contained the ability to make their team. This process was called scouting, and was used exclusively until about 15 years ago when a new method evaluating skill swept the MLB. It is called sabermetrics and it uses data and advanced statistics to analyze how much ability an athlete contains.

On Tuesday night, I sat down on the couch in my living room and watched an NBA basketball game on ESPN. My favorite team was facing up against the best team in their division, and I was anxious and curious to see who would win. After a devastating and gruesome four quarters, my team lost 77 to 111. To say the least, it was a very hard game to watch. The players on the Los Angeles Lakers couldn’t buy a shot even if they tried, while the players on the Golden State Warriors effortlessly made nearly every shot they attempted. I wasn’t surprised when the post game statistics revealed that the field goal percentage for my team was 37.3%, while the other team’s was 48.95%. On Wednesday morning, I researched the individual field goal makes and

Using these numbers, they can then create several mathematical models that then are used for statistical comparison of each of the players. Football uses statistics of everything like how many passes or catches a player makes. Then some of the coaches of the different teams use these statistics to compare each of the achievements the player makes. Realizing that there is the use of mathematics in everything like a simple and fun football game, shows me that you can calculate a lot of things and get statistics from them, these can help me in my math course and during my life because the use of statistics and the information I can get can make me know the probabilities of things happening or like the coaches in the teams that use them to compare things, I can use them for that too. I should use statistics more in my life when they can apply because they can make a difference in how I see things and make my life easier if I know what are the probabilities of an event happening, even if I am trying to choose between several things, I can get statistics to see which one is better or which one is the best option

A potential issue arises from talent identification as it is not an exact science and often subjective, and with research showing that physical and biological attributes alone do not have great effect on player skill in team ball sports (Burgess., 2010). The use of these should be limited or only used as a compliment to the broader decision-making process. However talent identification programs are heavily influenced by these measures (Abbott.,

Many people think that golf is game of skill, but in this paper I will be researching how golf is also a game of numbers. I already know a little bit about this topic especially the golf side, but I also know that using statistical analysis has worked in other sports like baseball. For example the book Moneyball by Michael Lewis, which was later turned into a movie, tells the story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics and their General Manager Billy Beane as well as their young Assistant General Manager Peter Brandt and how they based their season purely on stats to take their team to the playoffs.

`This can greatly affect the athlete greatly, if a player is placed in a position from a coaches’ subjective opinion, the athlete has the potential to disappoint wretchedly. Also, if an athlete has a specific sports assessment that must be taken however, did not train adequately

Sports have been around since the beginning of time. As the games age and become more popular, they start to evolve and become more competitive at the same time. This evolution comes from better strategies, techniques, and ultimately the athletes themselves. In today’s modern era of sports, professional athletes are the most elite people in their field, always wanting to be better than anyone else. With every athlete striving to become one of the greatest to ever play, some want to take short cuts. These short cuts

What a great comparative concept to use the Kirkpatrick model to athletics and sports. It is a practice that should be adopted more, especially in professional sports on down! We always wonder why the same teams, year after year have a bad season, and it may be because of financial or contract constraints, organization atmosphere, or it just my be that they do not feel that evaluation is important for their structure. If they would stop focusing on the W/L's, projected talent, and their bottom line, start investing more time into developing their players, they just might could get somewhere.

The next step in the development of sports and analytics is predicting the future. Currently, analytics relies on past data and statistics. Teams are already using analytics in the drafting process but, there is room for improvement. Teams want to minimize their chances of drafting a bust or a player that does not live up to expectations. This is an area to play close attention to as improvements are made and teams try and reduce the risk of players not living up to their

Performance analysis is a way to understand the factors explaining success in elite-level sports. It gives coaches knowledge of the sport so they can think of ways to develop playing and training (Bergeles, 2009). Performance analysis has been recently utilized in different levels of volleyball in many studies (Bergeles, 2009 - Ismail, 2003).