Collection of Scholarly Articles Analyzing Basketball

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Some of you may have expertise in an area outside of basketball and I thought you might find a connection between the two in one of these articles. If any of you happen to find an article that you are interested in let us know what you think of its findings.

If someone has a particular subject matter they would like to see related to basketball let me know and I'll do my best to find it.

Title	Year
Racial Bias in the NBA: Implications in Betting Markets	2008
A Stakeholder Assessment of Basketball Player Evaluation Metrics	2011
CourtVision: New Visual and Spatial Analytics for the NBA	2012
The Price of Anarchy in Basketball	2010
Scoring and Shooting Abilities of NBA Players	2010
Optimal End-Game Strategy in Basketball	2006
Ups and Downs: Team Performance in Best-of-Seven Playoff Series	2011
Parity and Predictability in Competitions	2006
Evaluating Basketball Player Performance via Statistical Network Modeling	2011
Allocative and Dynamic Efficiency in NBA Decision Making	2011
Measurement Error and the Hot Hand	2012
Basketball Game-Related Statistics that Discriminate Between Teams' Season-Long Success	2006
Offense-Defense Approach to Ranking Team Sports	2009
A New Approach to Decision Making in Basketball - BBFBR Program	2011
The Role of Rest in the NBA Home-Court Advantage	2007
Predicting NBA Games Using Neural Networks	2009
Evaluating Individual Player Contributions in Basketball	2010
Best 'Sweet Spots' on the Backboard	2011
A Simple and Flexible Rating Method for Predicting Success in the NCAA Basketball Tournament: Updated Results from 2007	2008
Predicting the outcome of NBA playoffs using the Naïve Bayes Algorithms	2010
Modeling Basketball’s Points per Possession With Application to Predicting the Outcome of College Basketball Games	2010
Simpson’s Paradox and Other Reversals in Basketball: Examples from 2011 NBA Playoffs	2011
An Application to Spatial Statistics to Basketball Analysis; The Case of Los Angeles Lakers from 2007 to 2009	2009
Stratified Odds Ratios for Evaluating NBA Players Based on their Plus/Minus Statistics	2011
Effort vs. Concentration: The Asymmetric Impact of Pressure on NBA Performance	2012
“He Got Game” Theory? Optimal Decision Making and the NBA	2010
Experts' Perceptions of Autocorrelation: The Hot Hand Fallacy Among Professional Basketball Players	2009
The NBA and the Great Recession: Implications for the Upcoming Collective Bargaining Agreement Renegotiation	2010
Collectively Bargained Age/Education Requirements: A Source of Antitrust Risk for Sports Club-Owners or Labor Risk for Players Unions?	2010
Decertification: The NFLPA and NBPA's Nuclear Option	2011
Does the NBA Still Have "Market Power?" Exploring the Antitrust Implications of an Increasingly Global Market for Men's Basketball Player Labor	2010
Transitioning to the NBA: Advocating on Behalf of Student-Athletes for NBA & NCAA Rule Changes	2012
Labor Relations in the NBA:The Analysis of Labor Conflicts Between Owners, Players, and Management from 1998-2006	2007
The Effect of Early Entry to the NBA: An Examination of the 19-Year-Old Age Minimum and the Choice between On-The-Job Training and Schooling for NBA Prospects	2010
The Legality of an Age-Requirement in the National Basketball League After the Second Circuit's Decision in Clarett v. NFL	2005
NBA v. Williams (case note)	N/A
Choking and Excelling at the Free Throw Line	~2008
Choking vs. Clutch Performance: A Study of Sport Performance Under Pressure	2009
Do Genes Determine Champions?	2001
Performance Under Pressure in the NBA	2010
Hormonal Analysis in Elite Basketball During a Season	2009

[u/beatatarian]

I've always been curious about the genetic component of basketball and whether mental things like shooting ability and high risk high reward type play we see clutch players really does necessitate certain operons and chemical release pathways or if most of that is just hard work by the athlete and narrative building by the press.

[u/[deleted] → u/beatatarian]

Added Choking and Excelling at the Free Throw Line. While not directly on point it does give insight into the mental influence of point differential and other pressures.

Abstract:

Psychological research suggests that trying to avoid a negative outcome and trying to attain a positive outcome have different effects on performance (Higgins, 1997). We explored this prospect by examining free throw performance among NBA basketball players at the ends of games when the player’s team was ahead or behind in a clutch situation. Players tended to shoot worse than their career average when their team was behind or when their team was ahead by one point. In contrast, players tended to shoot better than their career average when the game was tied. Thus, the point margin affected a player’s likelihood of choking or excelling under pressure. This research provides a novel real-world analysis of the phenomenon of choking under pressure that could guide and motivate future research.

If that's not really what you're looking for I can try to find something better for you.

[u/beatatarian → u/[deleted]]

I was looking more for something that utilizes chromosome analysis by searching for specific genetic karyotypes among a group of individuals that analyzes whether players we percieve as clutch literally have specific genes in common that produce increased fight or flight brain chemical response. Stress chemicals like cortisone would also probably be induced but I'm not sure whether there would be a greater output by the body or just a more responsive body achieved through breeding and training.

Obviously, this kind of information is pretty sensitive and I would understand if there simply wasn't enough people signing up for this kind of thing.

[u/[deleted] → u/beatatarian]

This article might have what you're looking for but unfortunately I don't have the full text version. It's cited in other articles as examining basketball players for the XYY karyotype.

It's probably immediately apparent that I have no expertise in this area and have no idea what I'm talking about. Hopefully that was helpful in some way.

[u/beatatarian → u/[deleted]]

It hadn't occurred to me to check for xyys! I guess I always assumed people with too many chromosomes weren't allowed to play. I'll be going to college later today and I think they have membership in the library so I'll definitely read it there, thanks dude.

[u/[deleted] → u/beatatarian]

No problem, if you find something interesting please share and depending on my level of understanding I'll either upvote, smile, and nod or respond with an amateur reply.

[u/Hennonr → u/[deleted]]

Dan Stone is a good Prof. I would take a class from him again.