Statistician Pathway

The Australian Basketball Statistics Committee has devised level 1 and 2 training courses that have been endorsed by Basketball Australia. 

A level 1 statistician must be able to:

• Understand basketball rules and statistical definitions,
• Understand the sequencing of statistical events,
• A basic understanding of the calling protocol,
• Use the computer and the current software program Read and understand a FIBA score sheet

A level 2 statistician must have held level 1 accreditation and be able to:

• Liaise with the Statistics Coordinator and game authority on any matters relating to the statistics bench.
• Prepare and set up the statistics bench and/or computer hardware and software,
• Consistently and accurately apply the philosophy of the statistical definitions,
• Accurately call, using the correct calling protocol.
• Manage a statistics bench and maintain the code of conduct,
• Effectively communicate with personnel on the scoretable and statistics bench and with clients,
• Reconcile boxscore with official score sheets,
• Prepare and distribute reports to clients.
• Email reports and game files to league