The iron cage of efficiency: analytics, basketball and the logic of modernity

Analytics, the application of advanced statistics to sport, has become increasingly prominent. This paper will focus on their in basketball. I argue that introduction analytics is an attempt expand logic modernity into area which, for Elias, its demands had historically been temporarily suspended. Instead we can see some key tenets – which explore via reference The Mid-Range Theory, a recent book promoting use basketball as reproducing modernist demand control, order, prediction and efficiency. In turn, also how critique reflects modernity, most notably disenchant social world create new iron cage Therefore, case shows us what Wagner called interpretation still significant purchase.