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Description/Paper Instructions

Collaborative Team Project: Evaluating Basketball Teams

Employers consider critical thinking as an important skill when hiring. In this term project, you will demonstrate essential Excel skills and critical thinking approaches.

Prerequisites

You should be familiar with the following skills using Microsoft Excel:

Workbook and worksheet skills: open, close, save, and create

Enter and manipulate data

Enter formulas and functions, such as Sum, Count, Average and calculating ratios

Apply formatting (e.g., color, border, print area)

You should also be familiar with MS Word to create, save, and close a Word document.

Case Scenario

After an exciting college basketball game, you and your friends began debating which basketball team is better. Your best friend is a die-hard fan of one team. Another friend has been supporting their rival team, also an alumnus. Other friends also said their teams have been performing the best. You think that there are different ways to measure the performance, so you suggested that they all analyze which team had the best performance during the most recently completed full season.

Project Requirements

1) If you are not familiar with benchmarking analysis, watch the “What is Benchmarking?” video to learn about this commonly used approach that corporations use to measure and compare performance. The video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mY2YrYAE-U.

2) To collect data on the College Basketball Stats and History: http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/. Select a college men’s basketball team and locate their latest complete season statistics on the website. Each group member is to select a different team.

3) Working with your group members, run a benchmarking analysis to compare the performance of these teams as follows. For each team that the group members have selected:

a) Collect data from the website:

b) Find the statistics that represents each team’s performance (not the conference performance).

c) At a minimum, include the following performance indicators for each team:

i) Number of games won

ii) Number of games lost

iii) PTS — Total Points

iv) G — Games (i.e., number of games played during the season)

v) FG% — Field Goal Percentage (from any distance)

vi) 3P% — 3-Point Field Goal Percentage (from beyond the 3-point line)

vii) TOV — Total Turnovers

d) Use Excel formulas to calculate the following key performance indicators (KPIs):

i) Win-loss percentage (W-L%) = Number of games won / Total number of games played

ii) Average points per game = Total Points / Total number of games played

iii) Average Turnovers per Game = Total Turnovers / Total number of games played

4) Identify three additional key performance indicators (KPIs) that your group thinks as important to benchmark. These KPIs should be same for every team!

5) All these statistics should be clearly labeled and formatted in the same way for each of team. Use Excel tools such as borders, font size and type, and colors to make it easy to understand for readers of your report.

6) Enter the group number, group members’ names, and report name in the page header of the report.

7) Format your report to print on one page.

8) Save the Excel file, and the team leader uploads it to Canvas.

9) Based on your report, write an executive summary of your findings in Word. Include information and reasoning to answer the following questions:

a) Which basketball team in your group’s selections has the highest Average Points per Game?

b) Which team has the highest Field Goal Percentage (FG%)?

c) Which team has the highest Win-lose percentage (WL%)?

d) Which team has the highest Average Turnovers per Game?

e) Which KPI is the most important based on your data?

f) Which team has the best performance based on the three KPIs you identified as a group?

g) Explain why you selected these three additional KPIs.

h) Which team in your group’s selections performed the best? Explain why.

10) Save your Word document, and the team leader uploads it to Canvas.

RUBRIC QUALITY OF RESPONSE NO RESPONSE POOR / UNSATISFACTORY SATISFACTORY GOOD EXCELLENT Content (worth a maximum of 50% of the total points) Zero points:  Student failed to submit the final paper. 20 points out of 50:  The essay illustrates poor understanding of the relevant material by failing to address or incorrectly addressing the relevant content; failing to identify or inaccurately explaining/defining key concepts/ideas; ignoring or incorrectly explaining key points/claims and the reasoning behind them; and/or incorrectly or inappropriately using terminology; and elements of the response are lacking. 30 points out of 50:  The essay illustrates a rudimentary understanding of the relevant material by mentioning but not full explaining the relevant content; identifying some of the key concepts/ideas though failing to fully or accurately explain many of them; using terminology, though sometimes inaccurately or inappropriately; and/or incorporating some key claims/points but failing to explain the reasoning behind them or doing so inaccurately.  Elements of the required response may also be lacking. 40 points out of 50:  The essay illustrates solid understanding of the relevant material by correctly addressing most of the relevant content; identifying and explaining most of the key concepts/ideas; using correct terminology; explaining the reasoning behind most of the key points/claims; and/or where necessary or useful, substantiating some points with accurate examples.  The answer is complete. 50 points:  The essay illustrates exemplary understanding of the relevant material by thoroughly and correctly addressing the relevant content; identifying and explaining all of the key concepts/ideas; using correct terminology explaining the reasoning behind key points/claims and substantiating, as necessary/useful, points with several accurate and illuminating examples.  No aspects of the required answer are missing. Use of Sources (worth a maximum of 20% of the total points). Zero points:  Student failed to include citations and/or references. Or the student failed to submit a final paper. 5 out 20 points:  Sources are seldom cited to support statements and/or format of citations are not recognizable as APA 6th Edition format. There are major errors in the formation of the references and citations. And/or there is a major reliance on highly questionable. The Student fails to provide an adequate synthesis of research collected for the paper. 10 out 20 points:  References to scholarly sources are occasionally given; many statements seem unsubstantiated.  Frequent errors in APA 6th Edition format, leaving the reader confused about the source of the information. There are significant errors of the formation in the references and citations. And/or there is a significant use of highly questionable sources. 15 out 20 points:  Credible Scholarly sources are used effectively support claims and are, for the most part, clear and fairly represented.  APA 6th Edition is used with only a few minor errors.  There are minor errors in reference and/or citations. And/or there is some use of questionable sources. 20 points:  Credible scholarly sources are used to give compelling evidence to support claims and are clearly and fairly represented.  APA 6th Edition format is used accurately and consistently. The student uses above the maximum required references in the development of the assignment. Grammar (worth maximum of 20% of total points) Zero points:  Student failed to submit the final paper. 5 points out of 20:  The paper does not communicate ideas/points clearly due to inappropriate use of terminology and vague language; thoughts and sentences are disjointed or incomprehensible; organization lacking; and/or numerous grammatical, spelling/punctuation errors  10 points out 20:  The paper is often unclear and difficult to follow due to some inappropriate terminology and/or vague language; ideas may be fragmented, wandering and/or repetitive; poor organization; and/or some grammatical, spelling, punctuation errors 15 points out of 20:  The paper is mostly clear as a result of appropriate use of terminology and minimal vagueness; no tangents and no repetition; fairly good organization; almost perfect grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word usage. 20 points:  The paper is clear, concise, and a pleasure to read as a result of appropriate and precise use of terminology; total coherence of thoughts and presentation and logical organization; and the essay is error free. Structure of the Paper (worth 10% of total points) Zero points:  Student failed to submit the final paper. 3 points out of 10: Student needs to develop better formatting skills. The paper omits significant structural elements required for and APA 6th edition paper. Formatting of the paper has major flaws. The paper does not conform to APA 6th edition requirements whatsoever. 5 points out of 10: Appearance of final paper demonstrates the student’s limited ability to format the paper. There are significant errors in formatting and/or the total omission of major components of an APA 6th edition paper. They can include the omission of the cover page, abstract, and page numbers. Additionally the page has major formatting issues with spacing or paragraph formation. Font size might not conform to size requirements.  The student also significantly writes too large or too short of and paper 7 points out of 10: Research paper presents an above-average use of formatting skills. The paper has slight errors within the paper. This can include small errors or omissions with the cover page, abstract, page number, and headers. There could be also slight formatting issues with the document spacing or the font Additionally the paper might slightly exceed or undershoot the specific number of required written pages for the assignment. 10 points: Student provides a high-caliber, formatted paper. This includes an APA 6th edition cover page, abstract, page number, headers and is double spaced in 12’ Times Roman Font. Additionally, the paper conforms to the specific number of required written pages and neither goes over or under the specified length of the paper.

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