Journal of Basketball Studies
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Introducing the Sauriol Success Matrix (SSM): Is Tanking a Viable Team Strategy

I DON'T USUALLY SEE VALUE in new ways of ranking players, but this article by one of my past students took a different approach that is useful for analysis. Using fairly basic info that reflect Coach/GM evaluations, he creates tiers of players in a logical system. In this case, it is applied to a quick evaluation of tanking.

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