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Statistics Prof Finds the Most Common Plays aren’t Necessarily the Most Effective for Scoring

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The pick and roll is one of the fundamental and most common offensive plays in basketball—just ask Karl Malone and John Stockton. But should it be?

That’s the question BYU statistics professor Gil Fellingham helped answer in a new study published in scientific journal PLOS ONE. The research predicts the outcomes of specific offensive-defensive match ups based on the location of the ball and players on the court.

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