Resumen de Factorial Analysis of the Skills Preferred by Basketball Players: a Study in Young Players

Antonio Montero-Seoane, Milagros Ezquerro García-Noblejas, Miguel Á. Saavedra-García

• The aim of this work is to classify basketball skills according to the preference of the young players who play this sport. The most interesting results show the existence of 5 factors which could explain the variation percentage of 66, 99 %. The drew factors arranged from better to worse as a function of how well they explain the issue, have been named as " Shot and scores 1 or 2 points "; " Receive + Defence + Bounce "; " Recover + 3 points scores "; " Provoke personal fault " and " Rebound ".