Comparative review of statistical parameters for men's and women's basketball leagues in Serbia

Abstract

Basketball is one of the most popular sports. During a basketball game, statisticians note a large amount of information, helping coaches and players to improve their game and to analyse opponents in order to prepare for the following games. Due to amount and complexity of the information, basketball is the ideal discipline for the application of data mining techniques, especially neural networks that enable one to extract conclusions and knowledge from these data. In this paper, we compared the First senior leagues for men and for women in Serbia during the 2011/2012 season, and from these statistics, we calculated influence of certain parameters on a game's outcome. We concluded that the most influential parameter, in both leagues, is the offensive rebound. In men basketball then follows the three-point shot, the two-point shot and the one-point shot. In women's basketball, after the defensive rebound, the two-point shot follows, and then turnovers.