Can Basketball Players Actually be "on fire"?
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Can Basketball Players Actually be "on fire"?
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The purpose of my symposium project is to apply mathematical analysis towards the phenomenon of hot and cold shooting in basketball. There is research that both supports and refutes the occurrence of hot streaks. In order to test this, I created a mathematical model to represent a basketball player, allowing for varying shooting percentages and correlations between shots. The model was used to create a survey to determine whether students could tell the difference between a streaky player and a normal player. The surveys were filled out voluntarily by college students. The results showed that students who believed in streaky shooting were more likely to identify shooters and streaky and students tended to identify better players as streaky players. The conclusion from my test is that people perceive the phenomenon of hot streaks to be more impactful than it is in reality.
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http://hdl.handle.net/2323/5668
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Author (aut): Elenbaas, Andrew
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1 page pdf
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