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Title: There are 13 positions in basketball, not 5.
Post by: warriorchick on May 02, 2012, 02:24:23 PM

Interesting article about a paper presented at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/05/02/_13_positions_in_basketball_muthu_alagappan_makes_the_argument_with_topology.html

Enjoy, nerds!

Title: Re: There are 13 positions in basketball, not 5.
Post by: warthog-driver on May 02, 2012, 06:11:59 PM

None more important than the Trillion Man.

http://clubtrillion.blogspot.com/

Title: Re: There are 13 positions in basketball, not 5.
Post by: Jay Bee on May 03, 2012, 10:17:20 PM

So, uh.. warriorchick.. what's your favorite position?

Title: Re: There are 13 positions in basketball, not 5.
Post by: brewcity77 on May 03, 2012, 10:23:47 PM

Quote from: Jay Bee on May 03, 2012, 10:17:20 PM
So, uh.. warriorchick.. what's your favorite position?

My money's on either the offensive rebounder or scoring ball-handler ;D

Title: Re: There are 13 positions in basketball, not 5.
Post by: 4everwarriors on May 04, 2012, 05:03:18 AM

kuma sutra

Title: Re: There are 13 positions in basketball, not 5.
Post by: warthog-driver on May 04, 2012, 08:41:03 AM

Quote from: Jay Bee on May 03, 2012, 10:17:20 PM
So, uh.. warriorchick.. what's your favorite position?

Hopefully she's not a "volume scorer"

Title: Re: There are 13 positions in basketball, not 5.
Post by: smrunner99 on May 04, 2012, 08:45:27 AM

this is probably why we do not have that many members who openly state they are a woman on the board.

Title: Re: There are 13 positions in basketball, not 5.
Post by: Benny B on May 04, 2012, 08:48:08 AM

Quote from: 4everwarriors on May 04, 2012, 05:03:18 AM
kuma sutra

Here I've been calling it kuma satra all these years. No wonder it wasn't working.

Title: Re: There are 13 positions in basketball, not 5.
Post by: warriorchick on May 04, 2012, 08:53:31 AM

Quote from: Benny B on May 04, 2012, 08:48:08 AM
Here I've been calling it kuma satra all these years. No wonder it wasn't working.

You guys are BOTH wrong!

And all of you obviously missed my post about how girls played in Tennessee. I had a non-scoring position. I just guarded the goal. ::)

Title: Re: There are 13 positions in basketball, not 5.
Post by: brewcity77 on May 04, 2012, 08:59:53 AM

Quote from: warriorchick on May 04, 2012, 08:53:31 AMYou guys are BOTH wrong!

And all of you obviously missed my post about how girls played in Tennessee. I had a non-scoring position. I just guarded the goal. ::)

So what you're saying is everyone tried to score on you? ;)

Title: Re: There are 13 positions in basketball, not 5.
Post by: Benny B on May 04, 2012, 09:21:42 AM

Quote from: warriorchick on May 04, 2012, 08:53:31 AM

You guys are BOTH wrong!

And all of you obviously missed my post about how girls played in Tennessee. I had a non-scoring position. I just guarded the goal. ::)

I've played hockey against a couple Tennessee collegiate teams. Their goalies were horrible. We had guys on our team who could barely skate, and even they were scoring at will.

Title: Re: There are 13 positions in basketball, not 5.
Post by: warriorchick on May 04, 2012, 09:48:42 AM

Quote from: Benny B on May 04, 2012, 09:21:42 AM
I've played hockey against a couple Tennessee collegiate teams. Their goalies were horrible. We had guys on our team who could barely skate, and even they were scoring at will.

There's not a lot of ice in Tennessee. Nashvile didn't even have an indoor rink (or at least, not one that was open to the public) until about 1980.

MUScoop

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