We wrote a lot of code for this project, in many iterations and versions. We tried to compile the most relevant and important work into these three notebooks, available at our GitHub Repository
The game of basketball has gotten increasingly data-driven in the last couple of years, with companies like SportsVU tracking player movements with cameras above all games and companies like Second Spectrum using that information for data analytics and machine learning. We wanted…
Interactive Tool can be found HERE.
We’ve been working on this project for about four weeks now, investigating what we can do with NBA statistics and data. Our progress has led us to two tools, a shot predictor tool and an animation of the game. But first, we had to gather data!
To begin this project, we explored all the statistics available from stats.nba.com, as this seemed to be the place that we could get the most extensive basketball statistics. The website has a ton of both player and team stats, sorted by things such as different play types…