Basketball teams offer insights into building strategic networks

Friday, November 16, 2012 - 15:31 in Mathematics & Economics

What started out as a project to teach undergraduate students about network analysis, turned into an in-depth study of whether it was possible to analyze a National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball team's strategic interactions as a network. Arizona State University researchers discovered it is possible to quantify both a team's cohesion and communication structure.

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