{"product_id":"numbers-dont-lie-9781496216144","title":"Numbers Dont Lie","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNumbers 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Colás, an independent researcher and former University of Michigan instructor, has authored a fascinating history of the development of statistics keeping in the sport of basketball. . . . The author effectively interweaves personal vignettes with his historical account of how big data has transformed the sport of basketball.\"—L. Kong, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Big data is revolutionizing the analysis and management of professional sport. In this important book Colás demolishes the misconception that our data is independent of our value judgments and challenges us to think about what it is we are really doing with data. Every data analyst working for a sports team, every writer or broadcaster who brandishes some statistic, everyone who thinks they know data, and anyone who trusts others to tell them what the data means needs to read this book. It will open your eyes.”—Stefan Szymanski, author of \u003ci\u003eMoney and Soccer: A Soccernomics Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Yago Colás elucidates a dense observation that Charles Barkley once spat about how the proliferation of quantification in a game that was first tallied only by a soccer ball tossed through a peach basket in small-town Massachusetts has become as much a disclosure about race and culture in America as narratives written and uttered about the players who score, rebound, and assist. This is recommended reading for further understanding the complexity of sport and culture.”—Kevin Blackistone, ESPN panelist, University of Maryland journalism professor, and \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e columnist\u003cbr\u003e“If you enjoy any team sport, \u003ci\u003eNumbers Don’t Lie\u003c\/i\u003e will take you on a journey of discovery unlike any you’ve been on before. You will finish with a deeper understanding of the person and player, the statistics that are relevant, the context they relate to, and you will begin to see the things that really matter in the game of basketball. Be prepared: you will never look at the game of basketball in the same way again.”—Fergus Connolly, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Process: The Methodology, Philosophy, and Principles of Coaching Winning Teams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A profoundly compelling and convincing analysis, \u003ci\u003eNumbers Don’t Lie\u003c\/i\u003e offers a vivid combination of cultural dissection, social explication, personal narrative, technological exposé, and existential contemplation. Through this heady synthesis Yago Colás meticulously unpacks the ‘science of moving dots’ through which basketball has come to be administered, controlled, understood, and experienced. In doing so he adds significantly to his unique basketball oeuvre and confirms his position as the leading scholar of the game.”—David L. Andrews, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Two Baskets\u003cbr\u003e Introductory Interlude—Records\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Counting\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Science of Moving Dots\u003cbr\u003e Interlude—Rulers\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Culture of Moving Dots\u003cbr\u003e Interlude—Numbers\u003cbr\u003e 3. Counting, America’s Game\u003cbr\u003e Interlude—Thermometers\u003cbr\u003e 4. Counting America’s Bodies\u003cbr\u003e Interlude—My Basketball Soul\u003cbr\u003e 5. Counting for Character\u003cbr\u003e Interlude—One on One\u003cbr\u003e 6. Counting for Competition\u003cbr\u003e Interlude—Measuring Sticks\u003cbr\u003e 7. Counting for Commerce in College Basketball\u003cbr\u003e Interlude—Magic\u003cbr\u003e 8. Counting for Commerce in the NBA\u003cbr\u003e Interlude—Basketball Jesus\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Work of Moving Dots\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. What Counts\u003cbr\u003e 10. Approaching Basketball Experience\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Ethics of Understanding Basketball\u003cbr\u003e Interlude—Basketball Supernatural\u003cbr\u003e 12. Feeling Basketball\u003cbr\u003e 13. Counting What Counts in Basketball\u003cbr\u003e Coda: When Counting Counts\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409227424087,"sku":"9781496216144","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496216144.jpg?v=1730506041","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/numbers-dont-lie-9781496216144","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}