America holds first FIBA Statistician Certification workshop

SAN JUAN - FIBA's new competition system is ushering in a new era in basketball. From 2017 onwards 1,680 top players will compete in 1,200 national team games around the world.

This number of regular national team games is unprecedented. In preparation for this undertaking, FIBA Americas conducted the first of a series of FIBA Statistician Certification workshops.

The initial workshop featured 16 Statisticians and ran from 16th – 17th December, at the FIBA’s Regional Office in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The workshop involved the discussion of a situational interpretations and how these will be applied globally to create consistency throughout all FIBA national team competitions.

The participants also laid the foundation of how future FIBA statistician licensing workshops will be conducted under the new competition system.

FIBA Americas will continue its Statistician Certification workshops throughout the first phase of the DIRECTV Liga de las Americas, in Monterrey (MEX) on January 27-28, in Buenos Aires (ARG) on February 3-4 , and Ponce (PUR) on February 10-11.

This is one of many initiatives FIBA is conducting worldwide to fully prepare for the inception of the new competition system beginning in 2017.

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