It is still largely unclear to what extent bettors update their prior assumptions about the
strength and form of competing teams considering the dynamics during the match. This is of …

This study explored the emotional and cognitive dimensions associated with technical fouls
(TFs) in basketball coaching. Using in-depth interviews with Israeli first-division basketball …

This paper provides new evidence that team-level momentum exists in the National
Basketball Association (NBA). The existence of momentum is one of the most prominent and …

We summarize popular methods used for skill rating in competitive sports, along with their
inferential paradigms and introduce new approaches based on sequential Monte Carlo and …

Triggered by advances in data gathering technologies, the use of statistical analyzes,
predictions and modeling techniques in sports has gained a rapidly growing interest over …

In this article, Poisson time series models are considered to describe the number of field
goals made by a basketball team or player at both the game (within-season) and the minute …

Sports data analytics has been gaining importance over recent years as an essential topic in
applied statistics. Specifically, basketball has emerged as one of the iconic sports where the …

This paper examines the existence of a hot hand and whether performing in front of a
supportive audience creates a psychological pressure, which may impair performance …

This research paper investigates the existence of the Hot Hand phenomenon by leveraging
a unique dataset, which implicitly addresses many of the issues prevalent in the existing …

Quantitative analysis of professional basketball become an attractive field for experienced
data analysts, and the recent availability of high-resolution datasets pushes data-driven …