NBA CAREER HIGHS – ANALYSIS OF RESULTS

DATA:

Total Career Highs Reviewed: 275 – All NBA players with a career high listed on the Internet as of 6-12-01 were reviewed. Total points scored in the career high game was recorded. Each players’ biorhythm was run on the date of the career high. The following are detailed analyses of the data below:

• The emotional positives (+ and #) outnumbered the negatives (- and *) by nearly 2:1 (140 vs 74). In other words to attain a career high an athlete is twice as likely to do so with an emotional positive versus an emotional negative.
• The intellectual positives (+ and #) outnumbered the negatives (- and *) by approximately 1 ½ times. (135 to 88).
• An interesting point to note from the Physical column is that having a physical positive was not essential to scoring well enough to attain career highs.

Why would a player attain a career high even when their biorhythm did not have emotional positives?

• Playing up to the competition or challenge of another star player
• “Picking it up” when a key player on the same team is injured
• The emotional negative had a physical and intellectual positive to offset it.
• What does this data mean for the NBA coach?
• An NBA coach should run the biorhythms of his players to determine which of them has the best opportunity for exceptional play. The player should be easy to select since the player with an emotional positive is twice as likely to do well

Copyright 1996 - Harvey Makishima