Abstract
The study investigates the relationship between two ways of evaluating actual individual quality of basketball players: the evaluation of experts (EE) and the quality index (INK) which represents variables of criteria. The sample of subjects comprised of 44 professional basketball players (27 outer and 17 inner) who played in The First YUBA League in Yugoslavia in the season 2001/2002. The evaluation of experts was obtained on the basis of assessment of five basketball experts, whose marks have been checked for objectivity and reliability, while the quality index was obtained from the official statistics based on the data about the situational efficiency of basketball players. The connection of these two ways of estimation of the basketball players quality is medium (р = .643; р = .001). The first set of prediction variables consists of the situational efficiency of basketball players variables, while the second set consists of the same variables calculated based on number of minutes each player spent in the game. In the data processing the correlation, factor and regression analysis was used (method Step Wise). In the opposing of the first set of variables to the criterion the evaluation of experts the following variables were identified: SKO - the number of jumps and ASI - the number of assistances, whereas in the second set of variables: ASEF – assistance per minute and SKOEF – the number of jumps per minute.