Mid Sweden University

The aim of the study was to find out global quantitative differences between successful and unsuccessful teams, which had played on the Olympic basketball tournament, in twenty two standard and derived statistical indicators of situational efficiency. The research was performed on the sample of 37 matches, so that 74 different statistical samples have been included in analysis. Data were collected by means of statistics patterns provided by official FIBA web site www.fiba.com. A discriminative analysis has been conducted in order to track down possible differences between two groups of the teams. One statistically significant discriminative function has been obtained. The values of canonical correlation are pretty high, which is to say that the 22 statistical parameters make very good difference between successful and unsuccessful teams, but also that there were big differences between the groups. The obtained results show that assists, parameters of shooters’ field goal efficiency, defensive rebound and number of points made by bench players are variables that make the most significant difference between victorious and defeated teams. The reason for big differences between the victorious and defeated national teams that participated on the final Olympic basketball tournament in Beijing is probably because they highly differentiated in technical, tactical and physical conditioning, what is conditioned by participation of various quality national teams that come from different continents and countries, where basketball leagues are not so good.

Cilj istraživanja je bio da se na osnovu dvadeset dva standardna i izvedena statistička parametra situacijske učinkovitosti otkriju globalne kvantitativne razlike između uspješnih i neuspješnih timova koji su igrali na završnom olimpijskom turniru za košarkaše u Pekingu. Istraživanje je sprovedeno na uzorku od 37 utakmica, tako da su 74 različita statistička rasporeda uključena u analizu. Podaci su prikupljeni pomoću službenog FIBA internet sajta 'www.fiba.com'. Kanonička diskriminativna analiza je korištena kako bi se detektirale potencijalne razlike među timovima. Dobivena je jedna statistički značajna diskriminativna funkcija s vrlo visokim vrijednostima kanoničke korelacije, što govori da se na temelju dvadeset dva statistička parametra može izvršiti diskriminacija pobjedničkih i poraženih timova, ali isto tako i da su te razlike naglašene. Dobiveni rezultati pokazuju da asistencije, parametri efikasnosti šuta za dva poena, obrambeni skokovi i broj poena postignutih od igrača koji su ulazili s klupe najviše doprinose spomenutim razlikama. Ovako velike razlike su vjerojatno posljedica velikih razlika u tehničkoj, taktičkoj i fizičkoj pripremljenosti timova, a što je uvjetovano učešćem nacionalnih timova različite košarkaške kvalitete, a koji dolaze sa različitih kontinenata gdje košarkaške lige nisu jednako dobre i kvalitetne.