Tag: Basketball

Scoring the winning points at a basketball game

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
July 28, 2023

Categorized
Probability

Tagged
Basketball, Bowling, data, Gary Smith, Hot Hand, Kevin Love, NBA, prediction, Probability, Psychology, Statistics, Stephen Curry, Streak}

Sabrina Ionescu’s Hot Hand

_{When basketball players hit a "streak," does that elevate the probability of success?} _{Gary Smith

July 28, 2023

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Athletes do sometimes get hot—not that their chance of success is 100% but that it is temporarily elevated above their normal probability. Read More ›

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
February 14, 2020

Categorized
Sports

Tagged
3-point contest, Basketball, Hot Hands, National Basketball Association (NBA), Statistical fallacies, Statistics}

Is “Hot Hands” Just a Basketball Myth?

_{Not so fast…} _{Gary Smith

February 14, 2020

7

Sports}

The paper that busted the myth of “hot hands” is justly famous. But statisticians are not prophets. Craig Hodges’ streak of 19 in a row in the 1991 contest is still too incredible to be explained by luck or cherry-picking. The numbers show that hot hands don’t happen every day, but they do happen.