Basketball
... because the NBA didn't give us any this year
... or at least not a real season.
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 in
Rockwell Cage on Friday, 1/22/99 at 1pm. The tournament will be
round-robin with two 30 minute games occuring simultaneously with
10 minute breaks between each of the three rounds. As in all Olympic
events, participation is the key to winning and more importantly
having fun.
When (nice and early in the fortnight so your legs will be fresh)
Friday, January 22th, 1999, 1:00pm
Where (basketball players use to be called cagers)
Rockwell Cage (attached to Dupont)
Rules (pickup game style)
- Round-robin tournament, 30 minute games.
- 5 (or fewer) players from each team on the court during play.
- Players will call their own fouls. Ticky-tacky
(unreasonable, unsportsmanlike, etc.) fouls will result
in a -1 score penalty for team of caller. Ref will arbitrate
over what consitutes as a bad foul call.
- 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).
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
each made 1 shot attempt, then score for team B = 5 * 4.1699 =
20.8495 so team B would win.
- 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.
Kinh H. Tieu
Last modified: Tue Jan 12 18:20:31 EST 1999