This is the event that started the AI Olympics, and now it's
back! Time to work on that dribble, no-look pass, lay-up, and
fade-away for the upcoming AI Olympics Basketball Tournament.
The round-robin tournament will feature 30 minute games occuring simultaneously with
10 minute inter-game shooting festivities.
As in all Olympic events, participation is the key to winning and more importantly having fun.
When and Where:
Wednesday, January 29th, 2003, 2:00-4:00pm at
Rockwell North
Basketball Rules! (pickup game style)
- Round-robin tournament
- Half-court
- Two 15-minutes halves with a 2-minute halftime for team strategizing (or wheezing by the water).
- 4 (or fewer) players from each team on the court during play.
- A non-playing member from each team will ref.
- Ball will be inbounded from half court after a foul (no free throws).
- Player substitutions allowed only after a dead ball (foul or shot scored).
Game Scoring (entropic)
- Shots inside (or on) 3-point line worth 1 point each.
- Shots outside 3-point line worth 2 (yes two) points.
- Total team score = points * [entropy(shot attempt distribution) + 1]
where the shot attempt distribution is the distribution of
the identities of the shot attempters. For example, if team A
scores 10 points, but only two players made shot attempts with
each of the two players shooting 5 times, then score for team
A = 10 * 2 = 20. If team B scores 5 points, but 9 players
20.8495 so team B would win.
Shooting Contest Scoring
- Object is to maximize total distance: sum of distance of each shot made.
- Each team member gets 2 shot attempts.
Composite Score
- Ordinal scores determined by number of games won.
- All ties broken by number of participants (team members that play regardless of shot attempts, etc.).
- Final score for the event will be the Olympic usual 5, 3, 2, 1.
Brief History
"Basket ball" (the first hoop was a peach basket) was invented by James Naismith (a physical
education instructor at what is now Springfield College in MA)
back in 1891. The cold winter weather motivated Naismith to find
an indoor sport more exciting that calisthenics and less difficult
to find indoor space for than soccer.
Questions??? Contact Neal Checka
Special thanks to Lilla Zollei and Dave Gering for allowing me to steal
this webpage from the 2001 Olympics
Dec 31, 2002