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each teame The men worked in pairs, one acting as a recorder and the other as

an observere One pair made a record of all the passes and catehes, one pair made
a spot record of all the shets taken by players’ numbers, and the other pair ree
cerded the remaining material, Data were collected during all the home games on
both the Kansas team and the visiting teamse The technique used in the collection
of these data is the same as described in the first evaluation studye

It will be observed that in the first year only the offensive evaluation
chart was usede In the sccond year of the study, 1938-139, the evaluation tech=
nique was oxtended to include a defensive rating systen for both the team and the
individual playerse A new term, "defensive efficiency", is used in the defensive
rating which is canparable to the first study on the offensive rating. You will
please note that in Table III the term "defensive efficioncy" is the result of
the formula:

total positive defonsive evaluation points —
sum of positive ond negative defensive points

 

We now have a form of study which incorporates the offensive and the
defensive rating comparable to the batting and fielding averages in baseballe

It is the convietion of the speaker that research of this type is worth
while. The accuracy of this study depends upon the efficiency of tho recorderse
As stated heretofore, the selections were carefully made and the same individuals
performed thoir tasks in all games. Therefore, there is every reason to belicve
that the results wore very nearly correct. The groat benefit accruing to a coach
from this type ef study is that the mistakes made during the game are pointed out,
thus causing the players to be more conscious of theme This chart will enable
the coach to link up the practice poriod value of executing proper fundamentals
with matched game or competitive situationse

For instance, we teach our players before recciving the ball whon going
down the court never to got closer to the sideline than 8 feet because should that
player fumble the ball when very noar the sideline it will go out of bounds and
the player will lose evaluations points; whereas the same ball thrown to him when
he is within 8 feet of tho sideline can properly be recovered for no loss of
evaluation points to the player and to the teams

Again, in our offensive set up we insist that our offensive players
do not retreat teward the division line nearer than 8 or 10 feet, because when
the offensive team is forced back collectively by 2 defensive team, the playor
on the offensive team having the ball is in danger of getting "tiod up" if he
were closer to the division line than 8 fcete

Imnumerable instances such as the two outlined above are always pre=
senting themselves to the coach, enabling him to forcably teach better funda}
mentals to his proteges. The coach can say = By overcoming certain self-evident
faults you can increase your batting and fielding averagese And in the discussions
that always follow when the players and their coach are huddled around the batting
ond fielding average chart in the dressing room the following day these abeve
mentioned points always come out during the "“bullfest" e