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School A played the hane team fairly even on most of the comparisons cx-=
cept that they could not hit the gonl, making only 16% of their field goals, while
Kansas was making 33% of their attempts.

School B played the closest game from the score standpoint. Their loss can
be credited to a poorer shooting percentage than Kansas and possibly the direct
cause of the loss was Kansas' ability to recover the rebounds, the control of which
gave them additional chances to score and prevented Team B from scoring during the
added tim’ that the home team controlled the balle

School C excelled only in the number of free throws whilo Kansas had a 63%
average in free throwing as compared to a 51% AVCTALCe™

Like the total table, this summary table shows that the fundamentals of
the game « shooting, ball handling and rebound recovery = are necessary to offone
sive power and for winning games.

Individual Player Rating

 

During the season a running tabulation was kept on each player who played
in the home contests, showing the individual's performance in coach game and his
total ondeavors for the soason. (Sample record, Exhibit Be)

Since the close of the scason other items have been devised, such as ball
handling error, playing efficioncy, and scoring abilitye These points do not
appear on the original tabulation shects.

 

In rating an individual basketball player's offensive ability, many points
should be taken into consideration, and the method as a whole needs some modifica
tion, depending upon the position played and the style of baskotball used. Natur-
ally, the guards will recover more rebounds from the opponents't backboard than
the forwards. It also follows that the forwards should recover more rebounds off
their own backboard, and certainly the center or "quarterback" man will handle the
ball more often than other offensive players. These general trends are apparent
as soon as one begins a n intensive study of tho data gatherede

The players have been listed (sce Table V, Evaluation Point Totals) by the
number of minutes played during the home gamese By ®& brief study of this table
one can sce that there is a high relationship between minutes played and the total
number of cvaluation pointse The next column should have moro meaning in that
points are considored in relationshiy to the total number of minutes played. The
column on playing cfficicncy was arrived at by the formula given in the definition
of terms (noe 6)- This rating is probably the most meaningful in the table, but
it does not tell the complete storys

Ball handling is the basis for offensive ability, and for this roason a
ball handling table has been tabulated (see Table VI).