Sport, particularly in the realm of professional competition, is a domain of human endeavor that is increasingly dependent on the use of analytical statistical information. Consequently, mathematics ...and statistics are becoming increasingly crucial elements in sports. Although experts recognize the importance of analytics in women’s basketball, the literature addressing this subject remains limited. The objective of this study is to employ quantitative methodologies to discover prevailing patterns in global women’s basketball representation. The entities examined in this article were the games contested during the 2021 Olympic Games, the 2022 World Cup, and the 2023 continental championships. Two regression models were created for the research, using thirteen standard variables observed in the game. The evaluation of the regression model was conducted using the stepwise regression method, incorporating dimensionality reduction based on the outcomes of factor analysis. Among the 14 models that were observed, 13 of them exhibited strong and moderate linkages, while only 1 displayed weak connections and lacked statistical significance. The primary factors that account for the disparity between winning and losing teams in games are primarily associated with shooting accuracy toward the basket. When examining individual championships, the percentage surpassed 50% in all cases except for AfroBasket. However, when considering the overall results, the significance of shooting rose to 86%. The variable representing offensive rebound efficiency had a significant influence on the outcome, being present in all individual competitions, whereas defensive rebound efficiency was only considered in the overall results.
The aim of this paper is to review and summarize the theoretical and empirical facts of using the (BMI), (body mass index) in determining the relationship between body constitution and motor skills. ...Several key circumstances have been identified in which the body mass index can give erroneous information about the actual body composition, and especially about the amount of adipose tissue in the body. Factors such as age, sex, race, health status and muscle mass can influence the connection between(BMI) and body fat. Due to a relatively low coefficient of determination between (BMI)and percentage of body fat, one should be cautious when using (BMI) to evaluate body composition as a predictor of obesity or as a substitution measure in evaluating the influence of body constitution on the efficiency of motor performances. The analysis of the sources indicates that the existence of unexplained facts uses alternative measures of body composition and their limited use in research and direct training practice. Therefore, new concepts and models are necessary in order to explain the influence of body composition on the efficiency of motor performance. Apart from the necessary evaluation of variables of percentages of fatty and muscle tissues, it could be assumed that the application of two component (BMI) = (FFMI+FMI), (Fat Free Mass Index, Fat Mass Index) and/or (MFR) model (Muscle to Fat Ratio) would provide a better comprehension of these relations.
Evaluation in women's basketball is keeping up with developments in evaluation in men’s basketball, and although the number of studies in women's basketball has seen a positive trend in the past ...decade, it is still at a low level. This paper observed 38 games and sixteen variables of standard efficiency during the FIBA EuroBasket Women 2019. Two regression models were obtained, a set of relative percentage and relative rating variables, which are used in the NBA league, where the dependent variable was the number of points scored. The obtained results show that in the first model, the difference between winning and losing teams was made by three variables: true shooting percentage, turnover percentage of inefficiency and efficiency percentage of defensive rebounds, which explain 97.3%, while for the second model, the distinguishing variables was offensive efficiency, explaining for 96.1% of the observed phenomenon. There is a continuity of the obtained results with the previous championship, played in 2017. Of all the technical elements of basketball, it is still the shots made, assists and defensive rebounds that have the most significant impact on the final score in European women’s basketball. It can be noted that, unlike with the previous championship, inside play is no longer dominant, but there is a balance between inside and outside play, which has already been established as a developing trend in men’s basketball. The emergence of the offensive efficiency variable indicates that it is becoming significant in top-tier competitions as well but is still a challenge for coaches to grasp the causes of this multicomplex issue based on this indicator.
This study aims to ascertain the significance of the basketball game parameters which discriminated between winning and losing teams in matches played. The study sample comprises matches played at ...the men’s basketball tournament at the XXXII Olympic Games in Tokyo. Four regression models were formed. Due to the size of the sample, the number of explaining variables was reduced using factor analysis, followed by stepwise regression to ascertain the statistical significance of the obtained models summarily, which were then broken down into individual parameters. This study indicates: (1) one of the four set regression models was summarily highly statistically significant; (2) out of the remaining models, two were eliminated due to the presence of multicollinearity, and one model did not exhibit high statistical significance; (3) the final score was most influenced by the variables of two- and three-point shot percentages, number of three-point shots, turnovers, defensive rebounds, and true shooting percentage. The results of the study corroborated the results of other studies which were carried out in recent years, that the game of basketball is trending towards three-point shots and lay-ups, reduction of turnovers when passing, and defensive rebounds have been confirmed to be greatly significant.
pplying the method of main components by Hotelling and the method of rotation of the main components, i.e. Varimax rotations by Keiser, the latent structure of basketball efficiency was established. ...It was based on the fourteen manifest indicators of efficiency. Our findings refer to the sample comprised of the game-winning teams at the World Championships: in Greece, 62 basketball teams; the USA, 62 basketball teams; Japan, 80 basketball teams; and Turkey, 80 basketball teams. Factorization was performed on the entire sample of all game-winning teams, that is 284, as well as on the single game winners at the championships in Greece, USA, Japan, and Turkey. There was the total of four factor analyses and within each of them five to seven latent dimensions, i.e. factors based on the fourteen manifest efficiency parameters were extracted. Katell method of landslide indicates a clear elbow between the third and fourth component. These first three latent dimensions in all four factor analysis exhibit the stability of factors and high saturation on the side of the manifest variables. The factors have been defined as: general offensive efficiency factor, three-points shot factor and free throw factor. Having the variables that account for the total number of attempted and made shots dominant within the structure of these factors, it can be concluded that general latent structure of basketball efficiency is indeed explained by means of shot efficiency. These findings confirm both empirical and theoretical speculations of basketball experts, i.e. the overall basketball efficiency is primarily dependent on the shot efficiency, what seems entirely logical.
In recent years, elite sport systems have become the subject of numerous benchmarking research, and a method for measuring their competitiveness was developed. This study aimed to improve the ...methodology of the existing model of measuring sport system competitiveness at the international level, which should bring about improvements in the theoretical understanding of sporting success factors in individual nations. In fact, this study has improved the methodology of the model that already exist and is used for measures of competitiveness of the sports system. Particularly, the study contributed to appraising the level of development and significance, of key sporting success factors. Evaluation of policies of elite sports in the Republic of Srpska was used to measure sporting success factors through the input-throughput-output process. The results of this study pointed to the cause of the inadequate competitiveness of the elite sport system in the Republic of Srpska. The study exceeded the qualitative level of policy development for elite sports and for the first time, sporting success factors for the Republic of Srpska have been expressed quantitatively as well. Namely, competition in sports is getting higher, and top international success can only be achieved if there is a balance between effectiveness and efficiency. The success of sports and athletes in the Republic of Srpska will require a long-term and stable system for developing elite sports, which must have a much higher level of support in terms of finances, human resources and science than it has been the case so far.
Development of basketball in the territory of former Yugoslavia in the time of II World War remained quite un-researched. Even though it was truly played, with almost same intensity as before the ...War, for a long time people were silent and wrote very little about it. During the period (1942 – 1945) several sport clubs existed in Belgrade: Sk. 1913, Bask, Bsk, Btk, Bob, Obilić, Sask, Bankarac, Izbeglice (Refugees), Vladan Matics’ club and others who cherished basketball in newly-formed teams. Besides many games, they organised championships and did their best to promote basketball among school youth. Beside Belgrade, basketball was played in other places too: Novi Sad, Subotica, Petro-vgrad, Šabac, Kragujevac, Niš, Prizren, Split, Zadar, Dubrovnik, Šibenik, Kotor and other, with dif-ferent intensity. Most of the games and championships happened during 1942 and 1943. During writing historical method was used (finding of primary historical sources, their analysis, as also finding and analysis of secondary historical sources). Numerous sources made in that time were reviewed and consulted (magazines, newspapers, papers, records, reports, overwrites, etc.) in: archives, libraries, institutes, private archives and museums of sports of former Yugoslavia, as also the sources made afterword.
Development of basketball in the territory we are talking about, during the WW II, remained quite un-researched, so the subject and the goal of this paper is to research, analyze, highlight and ...obtain from oblivion that same period. We hope to stir up the sports historians, and also other readers interested in history of sports for further research. During writing usual historical method was used (finding of primary historical sources, their critics, as also the finding and studying of the secondary historical sources) . A numerous sources made in that time were reviewed and consulted (magazines, newspapers, papers, records, reports, overwrites, etc.) in: archives, libraries, institutes, private archives and museums of sports of for-mer Yugoslavia, as also the sources made afterword. During 1941 basketball took place in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Split, Šibenik, Dubrovnik and Ko-tor. The competitions were played occasionally but most intensively in Belgrade. Serbian Basket -ball Federation was founded in September, also in Belgrade.
Development of basketball in the territory we are talking about, during the WW II, remainedquite un-researched, so the subject and the goal of this paper is to research, analyze, highlight andobtain ...from oblivion that same period. We hope to stir up the sports historians, and also otherreaders interested in history of sports for further research.During writing usual historical method was used (finding of primary historical sources, theircritics, as also the finding and studying of the secondary historical sources) . A numerous sourcesmade in that time were reviewed and consulted (magazines, newspapers, papers, records, reports,overwrites, etc.) in: archives, libraries, institutes, private archives and museums of sports of formerYugoslavia, as also the sources made afterword.During 1941 basketball took place in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Split, Šibenik, Dubrovnik and Kotor.The competitions were played occasionally but most intensively in Belgrade. Serbian Basket -ball Federation was founded in September, also in Belgrade.
This paper mainly refers to attitudes about the reasons for the avoidance of sports and sports activities of young people who have never been involved in these activities. In this survey involving ...226 university and high school students, 110 stated that they had never been involved in sport or any sporting activities. They are surely the most reputed to answer these questions. Of the offered reasons (causes) that are responsible for avoiding and non-participation in sports and sports activities, in the first place is the lack of interest which is stated by about 90% of the respondents. Secondly, the reason why respondents do not deal with sports and sports activities are the obligations at school and at the faculty, and this was confirmed by 85% of respondents. Laziness follows, about this they were very self-critical and sincere, confirming in a percentage of 84.5% that this was one of the reasons for their abstinence from sports and sports activities. Immediately behind laziness are television, there are computers and cell phones with about 80%, and so on. The results showed that male and female, then smokers and non-smokers, do not differ significantly in attitudes about these reasons. It is the same with those who consume, occasionally consume and do not consume alcohol. There is a partial difference between high school students and university students in attitudes to some causes, as well as between those who live in the city, suburban village and village.
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