Heroes of the Hardcourt: Ranking Pro Basketball's 100 Greatest Players, and Intr

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Finally there is a scientific way to answer these and other questions. The author, a former economics professor, business consultant and sports enthusiast, has accurately accomplished that feat using a methodology - known as the Performance Efficiency Rating (PER) system - which he developed in 1996. This methodology has accurately determined the regular season MVP in three of the last four NBA seasons, and which team is most likely to win the NBA championship (predicted the eventual champion in seven of the last ten years). In addition, between November 1, 1946, when the first NBA game was played, and game seven of the 2005 NBA Finals in which the San Antonio Spurs out-muscled the Detroit Pistons for the championship, precisely 3,572 players have suited up for a basketball game in the long and storied histories of the NBA and American Basketball Association (ABA). All of these players were evaluated using this PER methodology. In the end however, only the stories of the top 100 are presented here. The top 100 will surprise many, and will cause you to rethink your own top 50 greatest players (or at least the NBA's top 50 from 1996). As to the overall greatest player in pro basketball history why don't we let you read it to find out.

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Keith Thompson is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, and also lectured economics to college students in New York. He is currently President of PER Sports, Inc., a sports analytics consulting firm that advises on player draft and free agency acquisition strategies. He lives with his family in New Jersey.

Details ISBN1425903991 Short Title HEROES OF THE HARDCOURT Pages 312 Language English ISBN-10 1425903991 ISBN-13 9781425903992 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY B Year 2005 Imprint AuthorHouse Place of Publication Bloomington Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2005-12-07 NZ Release Date 2005-12-07 US Release Date 2005-12-07 UK Release Date 2005-12-07 Author Keith, R. Thompson Publisher AuthorHouse Publication Date 2005-12-07 Subtitle Ranking Pro Basketball's 100 Greatest Players, and Introducing a Whole New Way of Looking at the Game Illustrations 1 Audience General We've got this

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