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Title
3 Pointing Shooting

Broad Question
What's the best location on the three point line to shoot from.

Specific Question
Which part of the 3-point line has the highest percentage of shots made in?

Hypothesis
It is hypothesized that we will shoot the best from the straight on and corner parts of the 3-point line. We believe this because the straight on has the best angle. If you shoot too deep you hit the back board which gives it the chance of going in and it is one of the shorter spots. For the next best percentage, we chose the corner. Although the corner has really no option of using the backboard, it is the shortest distance which makes it a much easier shot.

Graph of Hypothesis
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Variables
Where the test subject is shooting from and the percentages made in.

Independent Variable:
where you shoot from on the 3-point line

Dependent Variable:
shooting percentages

Variables That Need To Be Controlled:
no crowd noise, temperature of the gym, everyone uses the same ball and hoop

General Plan
The general plan wasto test which part of the three-point arc has the best shot percentage at the middle school level. Each of the five participants took 10 shots from each of the designated spots on the three-point arc. This experiment was conducted in the Bartlett Gym. The experiment was tested during school. We will be observing and measuring the amount of shots made from each area. We varied the independent variable by making the of where you shoot from. We did this at each of the five spots on the three-point line and see which part has the highest percentage. We controlled the variables by having everyone using the same ball, no loud crowd, and all the kids will use the same type of hoop for each shot.

Potential Problems And Solutions
Some potential problems are that if we can't get access to the gym and shoot or if a teacher can't supervise us. Also we need the same basketballs for every shooter that way we can have the same weight, size and feel to the ball.

Safety Or Environmental Concerns
Our safety concerns are if the ball is shot and it hits someone in the head or somewhere else in the body. Some environmental concerns are if people walk through the gym and make a lot of noise.

Experimental Design
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Resources and Budget Table
basketball Spalding size 29.5 school gym middle school boys basketball hoops are the main two in the gym Go Pro and Camera Go Pro can also take pictures

Data Table
Left Corner Left Wing Center Right Wing Right Corner Shooter 1 Shooter 2 Shooter 3 Shooter 4 Shooter 5

Time Line
1.Our Experiment Design Draft will be done by February 29. 2.The experiment trials will be conducted for several weeks and be finished by March 21. 3.By March 25 our Results will be collected and our Conclusions will be finished. 4.On April 9th our Wiki page will be finished and we will have started our Display Board. 5.The Display Board will be finished by the 27th of April and we will begin to practice for the JBES Science Fair April 1.

Background Research

 * the best career percentage of all time .45 for NBA
 * the season best is .52 NBA
 * .55 in a season for NCAA
 * 3 pointer in high school and below-19’9’’
 * 3 pointer in college-20’9’’
 * 3 pointer in NBA-23’9’’
 * 3 pointer WNBA-20’6.25’’
 * .47 is the average three point percentage 2011-12 season

Detailed Procedure
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1.First we will need permission to use the Bartlett Gym, we will ask Mr. Pickering or Annette. 2.Then we will gather our shooters and ask them if they would be willing to do this experiment, we will let them know prior to the experiment that it will be conducted during the school day. 3.We will have 5 shooters shoot 10 shots from 5 different spots on the floor. 4.They will have time to loosen up and warm up a little bit before conducting the experiment. 5.The shooters will take turns shooting and we will put one shooter at each side of the court. 6.After everyone is done we will take the fraction of the shots made from each shot and turn it into a percentage. 7.Then we will find which spot of the three point line has the highest percentage.

Photo List
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the hoop-showing what the hoop looks like
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ball-showing the brand of the ball
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3 point line-the overall arc
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">people shooting the basketball-multiple pictures
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">videos with a Go Pro-attach to the person’s head while shooting
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">whole gym-overall picture of the gym
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ball going through the hoop-the ball going through the hoop after it’s been shot

All Raw Data
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Data Analysis
<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We conducted trials and put the information into multiple data tables and graphs. The first graph shows the percentage of shots made from each designated spot for each shooter. The second graph, has been averaged out the number of shots made from each spot. This graph shows which area on the three-point line had the most shots made of the best percentage of shots made. Another spreadsheet was also designed for a chart for each shooter, it shows on which shots, 1-10, they made from each area. This helps show if this shooter is consistent throughout the 10 shots or if they shoot well at the beginning or the end.

Conclusion
<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The experiment conducted showed which part of the three-point line had the best percentage of shots made. The independent variable is the number of shots made and the dependent variable is the places along the three-point line. The right corner ended up having the best overall percentages, which matches my hypothesis. The right corner had 34% just edging out the center which had 32%. These were the averages from each spot.

Discussion
<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The experiment was conducted to find what part of the three-point line has the best percentage of shots made. The right corner had the best overall percentage with 34% when we averaged out the shots made by every player. The experiment was answered with quite an obvious answer that was the wings were horrible. The hypothesis was that the corners and center would have the best percentage of shots made. This was proven true, the right corner had 34% made followed by the straight on shot with 32%. Many test trials proved that the shooters tendencies shot better in spurts like two in a row at the beginning and sometimes three or four in a row at the end or beginning. The place where you shoot from on the three point line definitely affects the shots made in.There is a strong cause and effect on the position where the shot is taken from on the three point line. We did not run into many problems throughout our experiment because our experiment was very simple. Since it was simple our experiment design was very easy, so they also ran into no problems there. The only thing I believe they could have done better would have been giving more specific rules for how long they can have from shot to shot. This would have impacted the percentage of shots made and how long it took during the trials. Otherwise overall I believe they did a great job conducting this experiment. For technology, they did not have much. They used basketballs, a basketball hoop, a camera, a flip video camera, computers, and calculators to help make the experiment as data close as possible. This technology helped improve the experiment because the calculator made it so they could get exact answers, the computer so they could record their data on it, and nice hoops and basketballs for the comfort of the shooters. The knowledge gained in this experiment could help many people in our society, coaches and basketball players in particular. This could help solve which part of the three-point line coaches want their players shooting from. They might want players shooting more from the center and corners instead of the wing areas to help them get more points and win more games. In the future this could impact many players shooting percentages to make an overall improvement on three-pointers.

Benefit to Community and/or Science
This benefits coaches and players to know where to shoot from on the three point line.