Tag Archives: Cognitive Bias

The Planning Falacy, basketball coaches, FastModel Sports, Radius Athletics

The Planning Fallacy And How It Relates To Coaching

The Planning Fallacy And How It Relates To Coaching

The Planning Fallacy explains why human beings, including basketball coaches, are terrible at estimating how long something will take. In my work counseling coaches, my clients often ask how long I think it will take their teams to learn an offense, defense or engrain some fundamental habit. There is no way I can accurately answer

Choice-Supportive Bias, Quin Snyder, Utah Jazz

Mental Biases and Coaching: Defeating Choice-Supportive Bias

Coaches: Is Choice-Supportive Bias plaguing your ability to make good decisions and move on from bad ones? Here’s how to spot and defeat it. Read more on Cognitive Biases and how they relate to coaching: Action Bias Pitfalls The Impact of Optimism Bias Avoiding Outcome Bias The Perils of Confirmation Bias Survivorship Bias in Coaching As

Action Bias, Coaching, Radius Athletics, FastModel Sports

Mental Biases and Coaching: Action Bias Pitfalls

A tendency toward action bias can at times lead basketball coaches and players astray, undermining short and long term progress. Read more on Cognitive Biases and how they relate to coaching: The Impact of Optimism Bias Avoiding Outcome Bias The Perils of Confirmation Bias Survivorship Bias in Coaching Defeating Choice – Supportive Bias Coaches are hard

Outcome Bias, NBA, Toronto Raptors, Radius Athletics

Mental Biases and Coaching: Avoiding Outcome Bias

Cognitive Bias In Coaching: Thoughts on avoiding the pitfalls of Outcome Bias for basketball coaches, teams and players.  Read more on Cognitive Biases and how they relate to coaching: Action Bias Pitfalls The Impact of Optimism Bias The Perils of Confirmation Bias Survivorship Bias in Coaching Defeating Choice-Supportive Bias “But Coach, I made it…” The above

Confirmation Bias, Radius Athletics, Geno Auriemma, UConn Huskies women's basketball

Mental Biases and Coaching: The Perils Of Confirmation Bias

Coaches can be blind to opportunities to advance their teams and programs by falling victim to Confirmation Bias. Learn how to combat it. Read more on Cognitive Biases and how they relate to coaching: Action Bias Pitfalls The Impact of Optimism Bias Avoiding Outcome Bias Survivorship Bias in Coaching Defeating Choice-Supportive Bias Like Survivorship Bias, Confirmation

Tony Bennett, Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball, Survivorship Bias

Mental Biases and Coaching: Identifying Survivorship Bias

First in a series on Cognitive Biases and how they can impact our decision making as basketball coaches. Here’s how Survivorship Bias works. Read more on Cognitive Biases and how they relate to coaching: Action Bias Pitfalls The Impact of Optimism Bias Avoiding Outcome Bias The Perils of Confirmation Bias Defeating Choice-Supportive Bias Simply put, Cognitive

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