Feb 11, 2020Beyond The Arch: A Closer Look at Spot-Up BigsBeyond The Arch is a series of articles where I use K Means Clustering to better understand how players are used on offense in the modern NBA. With six new offensive archetypes we explore many questions about how modern day NBA offenses operate. …NBA5 min read
Published in Playing Numbers·Dec 29, 2019Beyond The Arch: A Closer Look at Spot-Up WingsBeyond The Arch is a series of articles where I use K Means Clustering to better understand how players are used on offense in the modern NBA. With six new offensive archetypes we explore many questions about how modern day NBA offenses operate. …NBA4 min read
Published in Playing Numbers·Dec 27, 2019Beyond The Arch: A Closer Look at Balanced PlaymakersBeyond The Arch is a series of articles where I use K Means Clustering to better understand how players are used on offense in the modern NBA. With six new offensive archetypes we explore many questions about how modern day NBA offenses operate. …5 min read
Published in Playing Numbers·Dec 17, 2019Beyond The Arch: A Closer Look at On-Ball PlaymakersIn my previous article, I used a K-Means clustering model to develop a brand new group of offensive archetypes to bucket players. The result was an entirely new way to understand a player’s offensive role and responsibilities. …NBA4 min read
Published in Playing Numbers·Dec 4, 2019Beyond The Arch: Introducing a New Way to Understand the GameThe concept of guards, forwards, and centers in the game of basketball are as old as the game itself. Somewhere around the 1980s, as the game evolved with the three point shot, we started to distinguish point guards from shooting guards and small forwards from power forwards. Even to this…Sports6 min read
