Keith Thompson
Keith Thompson is the founder and President of PER Sports, Inc. He has developed sophisticated analytical tools to evaluate athletic performance in the sports of Baseball, Basketball and Football 1996. Throughout his 15-year professional career Keith has  also provided consulting services to numerous large and small organizations, including top pharmaceutical, industrial, energy, and financial services corporations. Keith also has an eight-year career as a College professor, lecturing economics and other business courses.

Keith Thompson also published a book entitled “Heroes of the Hardcourt”. This book uses the PER Sports concept to evaluate the performance all   pro basketball players, culminating in the ranking of the top 100 NBA and ABA players of all-time.


Articles

10 Things Wrong with Sports Series
 Reviewing the NFL's first-round playoff bye to its top-seeded teams

 Rethinking the Relegation & Promotion Structure in European Soccer

Critiquing the Playoff Selection and seeding process in Pro Sports
A Critique of the Amateur Player Draft in Professional Sports

 The Limitations of the current  Quarterback rating System
What’s wrong with the OPS analysis in baseball

 Time to Fix College Football's Flawed Championship Structure (Again)

 The 2004 Baseball MVP Race

 Democracy for the Famous: Critiquing Baseball's '98 All-Star selection process
Honoring our greatest competitors: Did Wilt Chamberlain get his just recognition?
Other Articles
Time for a new ‘Super’ League in European Soccer

Europe's best football teams

Which Soccer League is tops in the World

A Big East - Big Ten College Football Realignment Proposal
Baseball's Greatest Hitters of the 1990s

 The 1998 Baseball MVP Race
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Heroes of the Hardcourt
 Between November 1, 1946, when the first NBA game was played in Toronto between the New York Knickerbockers and the Toronto Huskies, and game seven of the 2005 NBA Finals in which the San Antonio Spurs out-muscled the Detroit Pistons for the champion-ship, precisely 3,572 players have suited up for a basketball game in the long and storied histories of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA). Each of these players has an incredible tale to tell of their accomplishments, triumphs and struggles.

All 3,572 players were evaluated using the PER methodology that was developed by the
author. In the end however, only the stories of
the top 100 are presented here. The top 100
will surprise many since only 44 of the NBA’s
50 greatest players from 1996 are actually on
this elite list, and a few are much lower ranked than you would think. In addition, the list also contains a number of players who perfected their craft during the 1950s when media attention on the game was sparse, to the incredible talents that existed within the ABA during the 1960’s and 70’s.

This book will cause you to rethink your own
top 50 greatest players; and the top 10
players, let’s just say it’s sure to raise a few
eyebrows. As to the overall greatest player in
pro basketball history … why don’t we let you read it to find out.