Numbers Don’t Lie gives readers a multilayered understanding of basketball analytics on its own terms, describes the historical and contemporary conditions in basketball culture, science, and society that have facilitated the rise of basketball analytics, and shows the varying impact of basketball analytics.
Numbers Don’t Lie gives readers a multilayered understanding of basketball analytics on its own terms, describes the historical and contemporary conditions in basketball culture, science, and society that have facilitated the rise of basketball analytics, and shows the varying impact of basketball analytics.
Yago Colás is the author of Ball Don’t Lie! Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball. Currently an independent researcher and writer, he previously taught literature and cultural studies at the University of Michigan.
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List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Two Baskets Introductory Interlude—Records Part 1. Counting 1. The Science of Moving Dots Interlude—Rulers 2. The Culture of Moving Dots Interlude—Numbers 3. Counting, America’s Game Interlude—Thermometers 4. Counting America’s Bodies Interlude—My Basketball Soul 5. Counting for Character Interlude—One on One 6. Counting for Competition Interlude—Measuring Sticks 7. Counting for Commerce in College Basketball Interlude—Magic 8. Counting for Commerce in the NBA Interlude—Basketball Jesus 9. The Work of Moving Dots Part 2. What Counts 10. Approaching Basketball Experience 11. The Ethics of Understanding Basketball Interlude—Basketball Supernatural 12. Feeling Basketball 13. Counting What Counts in Basketball Coda: When Counting Counts Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Two Baskets Introductory Interlude—Records Part 1. Counting 1. The Science of Moving Dots Interlude—Rulers 2. The Culture of Moving Dots Interlude—Numbers 3. Counting, America’s Game Interlude—Thermometers 4. Counting America’s Bodies Interlude—My Basketball Soul 5. Counting for Character Interlude—One on One 6. Counting for Competition Interlude—Measuring Sticks 7. Counting for Commerce in College Basketball Interlude—Magic 8. Counting for Commerce in the NBA Interlude—Basketball Jesus 9. The Work of Moving Dots Part 2. What Counts 10. Approaching Basketball Experience 11. The Ethics of Understanding Basketball Interlude—Basketball Supernatural 12. Feeling Basketball 13. Counting What Counts in Basketball Coda: When Counting Counts Notes Bibliography Index
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