Contributions to the team score by male wheelchair basketball players with different physical capacities at the Rio 2016 Paralympics.
Takashi Doi, Hirotaka Mutsuzaki, Kaori Tachibana and 2 others
PMID 30034104WHAT IT FOUND
In male Paralympic wheelchair basketball, high-rated players' model linked team score to made shots, shot attempts, and assists.
Low-rated players' model linked team score to made shots, steals, and turnovers. No usable model emerged for middle-rated players.
Key findings
01High-rated players had a model in which field goals made, field goals attempted, and assists had significant causal relationships with team score.
02Low-rated players had a model in which field goals made, steals, and turnovers had significant causal relationships with team score.
03The study could not develop a suitable model for the middle-rated group.
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What it does not show
The data were game box scores from one tournament. The middle-rated group had no suitable model. The study did not clarify individual circumstances of players in each country or differences in play. The analysis included only male players.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the model paths as proof that changing a single game statistic will raise the team score. The study used existing Paralympic box scores and did not test a therapy or training intervention.