midnightpulp
03-06-2011, 06:53 PM
Interesting read:
Kamil’s thesis is based on his belief that human coaches are “not optimally designed” to handle the tremendous amount of data they must process to make the correct decisions. He expects (as do many other very smart people) that computers will surpass human intelligence’s capacity for complex and abstract problem solving by 2040. Today, NBA team coaching staffs have become almost as large as the player roster in an effort to corral this data and feed decision making information to the head coach. No one person can completely keep track of the duties ascribed to NBA coaches. Managing substitutions, match-up strengths and weaknesses, player fatigue, opposition tendencies, play calling, etc. takes a village, and even then coaches make decisions that are easy to second guess in retrospect.
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/26001/futurism-and-coaching
Kamil’s thesis is based on his belief that human coaches are “not optimally designed” to handle the tremendous amount of data they must process to make the correct decisions. He expects (as do many other very smart people) that computers will surpass human intelligence’s capacity for complex and abstract problem solving by 2040. Today, NBA team coaching staffs have become almost as large as the player roster in an effort to corral this data and feed decision making information to the head coach. No one person can completely keep track of the duties ascribed to NBA coaches. Managing substitutions, match-up strengths and weaknesses, player fatigue, opposition tendencies, play calling, etc. takes a village, and even then coaches make decisions that are easy to second guess in retrospect.
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/26001/futurism-and-coaching