Importance of strength training in basketball

Importance of resistance training in team sports has been highly emphasized during the last decades. Positive influence of strength and power development on athlete’s health and performance is unquestionable. Ranging from improvements in bone mineral density, muscle-tendinous structure and function, economy of running and moving, followed by of course increase in force production, jumping, sprinting […]
Data Science in Sport

Moneyball and Data Science in Sport In 2011, the movie Moneyball came out. It was the first time when the term data science entered into the public’s consciousness. At the time Billy Beane was the general manager of the Oakland Athletics. Through the use of sabermetrics, the empirical analysis of baseball statistics he was able […]