Basketball betting
The National Basketball Association is the best league in the world, bringing together all the superstars of this sport under its banner. For a long time, teams and coaches have been looking for a tool that would help to put the optimal composition on the floor, to acquire a newcomer with transcendental potential. For 13 seasons in a row, they have successfully used the Floor Impact Counter (FIC) system. And recently, bookmakers began to use it, which, depending on the result obtained, set the odds.
Therefore, the user should definitely pay attention to the summary game indicator and learn how to work with it in order to conduct the most accurate pre-match analysis.
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Content
- The formula for calculating the aggregate indicator
- An example of calculating the indicator
- Advantages and disadvantages of the indicator
- pros
- Minuses
- Can FIC be used in betting?
- Output
The formula for calculating the aggregate indicator
The aggregate gaming indicator is objective statistics based on taking into account all aspects of the game. It allows you to determine the maximum potential of a basketball player.
The following are used as the main components in the calculation:
- Points – the total number of points scored for a certain period or the entire season;
- ORB – the number of rebounds made under his backboard;
- DRB – the number of rebounds made under the opponent's shield;
- AST is the total number of assists;
- STL – perfect interceptions;
- BLK – block shots made;
- FGA is the total number of shots made for the field;
- FTA is the total number of free throws taken;
- TO – committed losses;
- PF is the number of personal fouls.
Let's demonstrate how the aggregate game score is calculated:
The final result and assesses the maximum potential of each individual basketball player.
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An example of calculating the indicator
Let's move from theory to practice and demonstrate the calculation of the aggregate game indicator using a specific example.
In the final series of the 2019/2020 season, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat met. It ended with a confident victory of the “lake” ones with a score of 4-2. Their leader, as expected, was LeBron James, whose combined game indicator was: 1698 + 66 + 0.75 * 459 + 684 + 78 + 36 – 0.75 * 1303 – 0.375 * 381 – 261 – 0.5 * 118 = 1466
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In Miami, Adebayo became the leading basketball player, who has the following consolidated playing indicator for the season: 1146 + 176 + 0.75 * 559 + 368 + 82 + 93 – 0.75 * 790 – 0.375 * 382 – 204 – 0.5 * 182 = 1253.5
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The results clearly demonstrate that the Los Angeles Lakers leader is much stronger in potential than his opponent from the Miami Heat. This affected the final result, but did not prevent the “fiery” ones from winning two fights. On the one hand, this emphasizes the effectiveness of the calculation, on the other hand, it prompts the thought: “How is it applied in bets?”
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Advantages and disadvantages of the indicator
Any statistics are insidious and rather deceptive. Therefore, the aggregate game indicator has its positive and negative sides.
pros
Of course, for the coaches and managers of the National Basketball Association, this indicator is of key importance in determining the composition, searching for players. It is very detailed and allows you to consider not only the full potential of a basketball player, but also individual game aspects – playing in defense, playing in attack.
At the moment, even the placement of bets on the NBA in a bookmaker's office directly depends on the resulting aggregate game indicator for each team.
Minuses
But practice shows that the aggregate game indicator is not absolutely fair in all cases. The result of a particular match is influenced by too many additional circumstances – the time and place of the match, an uncomfortable team or its playing style, the mood of the leader. It is impossible to write off the accounts and the ancient “flew” / “did not fly”.
Therefore, it is frankly not worth using the calculation of the aggregate game indicator for the bet on a separate fight. A lot of time spent can be canceled out by one negative factor.
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Can FIC be used in betting?
Nevertheless, the use of the indicator can become a very important tool in the hands of any bookmaker user.
- One of the possible options is a bet on the aggregate game indicator, but so far there is no such thing in any bookmaker's office. True, the dynamics of the expansion of the line suggests that in the near future there will be bets on the FIC;
- As a single case, you can still calculate the aggregate game indicator for some TOP fight. But this does not guarantee a 100% result, only slightly increasing the likelihood of a successful bet;
- The best option is to use the aggregate game indicator in “outright” – long-term bets. For example, you can calculate it before the start of the season to predict the possible winner. True, this should be done only when all teams have completed the transfer work to acquire new players. Any unexpected transition can drastically turn the situation around.
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Output
The summary game metric is another interesting tool for basketball geeks. You can really get carried away with it and engage in analysis for a long time. But the practical value for bettors still remains at a rather low level. You can try to bet based on the summary game indicator, but only as an experiment.
In addition, it is much more interesting to play against the results obtained. It's always nice to catch a bookmaker re-evaluating one of the teams. The main thing is not to get too carried away with attempts to calculate this indicator for each match, it does not work on the conveyor belt.
