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Thursday, October 06, 2011

Hot hand free throws

By Tangotiger

Study:

Over all 5 seasons examined there is a improvement in the second attempt success rate conditioned that the first attempt was good. This data is for the mean of the individual level, eliminating any skew of the results due to aggregation.

And data is made available.

Glove-slap: mettle.

(2) Comments • 2011/10/06 • Sabermetrics • Streaks • Other Sports • Basketball

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