ANALYSIS

Short AND Tall(Hoopability)

OBJECTIVE

An activitty complementary to basketball where player heights simulate the natural range.

Among Benefits :

1. everyone eligible
2. broadened sources
3. teammates of various tallness
4. natural range of populace
5. never a "tall team" opponent
6. enriched skills and athleticism
7. close competition
8. innovative tactics, novel playing styles
   

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Terminology

The tallest 20% are "tall"
The 80% others are "ordinary height."
The "Tallness Minimum" divides 80-20
Hoopability: player talent regardless of height at any height

How does Short AND Tall evenly distribute the physical attribute of basketball - tallness?

In research of heights documented by the National Center for Health of Statistics of the U.S. Department of Health and Welfare, surveys report impressively consistent results. For example, 20% of men aged 18-24 stand 6:00 and above. This finding confines tallness to the 80th percentile. Generally, only one man in five is found to be "tall," while 80% are "not tall." Short AND Tall adopts this 80-20 doctrine and expands it proportionally for age-gender.

The average of men's heights - 5:09.3 - occupies the "not tall" range of ordinary-height men. Differences in basketball advantage are relatively slight within that 80%. Meanwhile, 6:00 is a convenient 80-20 divider of "ordinary height" from tallness. It is the men's Tallness Minimum, the level where the height advantage begins its rise in basketball effect. The age-gender groups derive comparable Tallness Minimums.

Short AND Tall distributes tallness evenly as an "abstract" allowance. It credits five "tallness units" to every squad. This detaches the tallness advantage from individual player heights and allots it in equal proportion across the natural 80-20 range. The five units of natural tallness serve flexibly as a currency. Assignment of Units makes players available to be chosen for a squad. Meanwhile, the dire prospect of a "tall team" foe is ruled out.. And thanks to the "counting on one hand" of numbers only up to five, squad math is quite simple.

In the development of Short AND Tall, a complex computation established the five-units ceiling. It prevents excessive team tallness while distributing a natural portion evenly. Technically, a series of arithmetic layers were manipulated. To spare tedious explanation, accept that developing divided the tallness notion into parts of one-twenty-fifth. As a result, one tallness unit for men approximates 2.5 inches. A unit in age-gender groups is slightly less than 2.5.

Units are assigned in denominations 0,1,2,3 or 4. Taller players are judged against four wall markings Their range simulates the natural 20% tallness. The 80% majority earns zero units, mostly just by a glance envisioning them as beneath the Tallness Minimum.

Employing the full five-unit tallness allowance is far from automatic. In the populace, height tends to cluster near the Tallness Minimum, so most tall people are only one unit - "just tall." A squad may possess only a couple of one-unit players. Or, as frequently the case, every available "tall" may lack hoopability. An under-sized team, even with absolutely no tallness units, is nonetheless valid, and is confident that any opponent is likewise held to the maximum.

In squad organization, a five-unit team can either concentrate or disperse the maximum tallness allowance in one of six ways:

4-1
3-2
3-1-1
2-2-1
2-1-1-1
1-1-1-1-1

Formation begins always with selecting for tallness. Then add as many ordinary-height players, zero-units each, as necessary to complete your squad.

Two additional rules favor the "ordinaries." First, the squad format is always the standard 10. This guarantees squads largely of "zero unit" players. Whenever there are fewer than 10, a "cost" in free throws is imposed for each reduction from the format. This controls 10 no matter what the squad size.

The referee does not evaluate tallness validity, but observes promptly whether a squad is under 10 players and makes sure that a pair of free throws is attempted as payment for each subtraction from 10.

It is helpful to uphold the format by recording a V for each vacancy on a Game List. The practice of exchanging Game Lists pregame may cease after a period of sufficient local experience.

Basically, coaches are entirely responsble with their affirmation of squad validity, including their judging of player tallness Units.

In the second special rule, every non-starter of the game is automatically included on the second-half opening lineup.The starters may then re-enter one substitution at a time. A strategic coach can bench, for a few minutes at the start, at least one key player. Then that non-starter is eligible to open the second half.

The name of the game is participation.