Score casting

I am currently reading the book score casting. Score casting is trying to determine whether conservative sports stories are better than outlandish ones. There is one character named James williams, he is the head football coach at a small private high school in Arkansas. Instead of regular football strategies like punting on fourth down and kicking field goals inside the opponents 30 yard line, this football coach goes for it all. Williams rarely punts except for when he is ahead by significant margins, and he doesn't have a field goal kicker on his roster. This strategy may be completely outrageous but it is successful, Williams has won several state championships he had only lost 12 games in 5 years. Williams has been extremely successful, some of these strategies have not been so successful. There was a basketball coach who was very successful in college, and got an NBA job with the Denver Nuggets. He told his players to shoot every 7 seconds and pressure the ball all the way up the court his team averaged 120 points per game but they gave up 130, they where nicknamed the Enver Nuggets. The coach of the Enver Nuggets was fired a year later after a pair of 20 win seasons.


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Scorecasting

I am currently reading score casting by moskowitz and werthiem. Score casting is about, proving the theory's of sports. For instance you may have heard the saying defense wins championships, and you probably think that is true over 75% of the time. According to the champions in the big four sports over the last twenty years the champion has had a dominant defense, or in the top ten in their sport only 52% of the time. Which is 33% less than our original hypothesis. This book also helps prove the superstar theory. The superstar theory is that star players are treated differently than regular player. Common sports wisdom states that every superstar should be treated better than the regular player. This is true. In the NBA a superstar player with 5 fouls with four minutes or less in the game has only a 12% chance of picking up his 6th foul that would force him to leave the game. While the pedestrian player, not the superstar has a 75% chance of picking up the 6th foul that would force him to leave the game. Score casting also proves baseball theory, this book proves that umpires call much smaller strike zones in and 0 and 2 count, conversely the umpires call a much larger strike zone with a 3-0 strike zone.



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