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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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TO PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE : BASKETBALL PLAYERS FREE THROW SHOOTING UNDER PRESSURE

Svalling, Erik January 2020 (has links)
How people perform tasks and under what circumstances they perform them optimally has been a fascination for humanity for a long time and more particularly whether people perform better or worse under pressure. In this paper, I try to find out whether people perform better or worse when there is pressure. The data used is the free throw percentages for teams of the Swedish basketball leagues “Svenska basketligan” and “Svenska Superettan” for both men and women 2003-2019. I then investigate if the teams perform worse or better when games have a lot of pressure. I use definitions of pressure such as the size of the audience, if the game was close in terms of points and whether it was a playoff game. The findings are that for certain definitions of pressure, such as if the game was close and the size of the audience, players performed worse.

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