The Influence of External Factors in the Efficiency of Basketball Scoring

Abstract

Modern sport psychology analyse the factors of anxiety on performance sport athletes and how they manage to cope with pressure, one of those important factors of anxiety being the public or the fans. In our research we started from the hypothesis that the public indifferent from home or away venue, can influence the sportive in their evolution and statistics. The research sample was formed by six athletes’ components of the Under 16 BC CSU Sibiu basketball team, with an average age of 15 ± 0.8 years old, and an experience on basketball of 7 ± 2.3 years old, all males. We used several statistical significance parameters as ANOVA and student T test, and a basketball specific design named ABAB. The results showed statistical significant differences between sportive performance with public and without public at the free throw line. Conclusions of our research proved that the influence of public is an important factor in athletes’ performance.