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008			160201s2016 maua bs 001 0 eng
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020			_a9780306824029 _q(hardback)
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050	0	0	_aGV 885.7 _b.G56 2016
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100	1		_aGlockner, Andy, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aChasing perfection : _ba behind-the-scenes look at the high-stakes game of creating an NBA champion / _cAndy Glockner.
250			_aFirst DaCapo Press edition.
264		1	_aBoston, MA : _bDa Capo Press, _c2016.
300			_a274 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Basketball team building is the ultimate challenge as the NBA level and the last few years have seen a massive change in the amount of money, technology, and approaches to finding and evaluating players. This process starts at the high school level, goes through college, and culminates in the NBA, where the ability to identify and cultivate talent is at an absolute premium. Media and fans like to talk about "busts" when a player doesn't work out, but in truth, it takes a complete team/franchise culture beyond any evaluation system to ensure the greatest chance of player success. Spanning the entire amateur and pro basketball landscape and using the 2014-2015 NBA season as a prism to a much larger story, Chasing Perfection is a fascinating, all-access spin through the inner workings of the smartest minds at every level of the game, all of whom are part of the chase for an end goal that may be impossible: establishing certainty in player acquisition. It is part quant/analysis/data and part philosophical/theoretical, but all interesting. It is about the ongoing, relentless, high-stakes quest to find what national sports writer Andy Glockner calls "Perfected Players" and what ultimately happens to them at the highest (pro) level. Chasing Perfection explores those players who, by the end of their run through high school and college and into the NBA, hit as many qualitative and quantitative predictors of future success as possible"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPerfected players -- A brief history of modern basketball analytics -- The basketball technology revolution -- Analytics believers and doubters -- The hunt for future perfected players -- Faster, stronger, more explosive -- The tricky art and science of turning data into wins -- How the NBA's best teams were built -- No single path to mining talent -- The world's most perfected player -- The warriors come out to play.
650		0	_aBasketball teams _zUnited States.
650		0	_aBasketball _zUnited States _xStatistical methods.
610	2	0	_aNational Basketball Association _xForecasting _vStatistics.
650		0	_aBasketball _xEconomic aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aBasketball _xPhilosophy.
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