Using NCAA Stats to Predict NBA Draft Order
Intro & Lit Review Predicting the NBA draft is always difficult. Should you draft a player on college statistics, NCAA tournament performance, combine results, potential, […]
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Can they Keep Up? A Look into the Pace Statistic in the NBA
Analytics is taking over the game of basketball in a beautifully informative way. Every metric sheds new light on a teams performance and provides a […]
Beyond The Arch: Brook Lopez’s Evolution
Beyond The Arch is a series of articles where I use K Means Clustering to better understand how players are used on offense in the […]
How Far Should the NBA 3-Point Line Actually Be
The 3-Point shot has changed the incentive structure of basketball. In this analysis I try to find an optimal distance for the line
Beyond The Arch: A Closer Look at Spot-Up Wings
Taking a deeper dive in to the Spot-Up Wing player archetype
Beyond The Arch: A Closer Look at Balanced Playmakers
In my previous article I took a closer look at how the number of On-Ball Playmakers is on the rise and I detailed three examples of the type of player that fit this mold. In this article I will do the same for Balanced Playmakers.
How to Get NBA Data Using the nba_api Python Module (Beginner)
How to use the nba_api module to scrape data from the NBA.com API
Beyond The Arch: A Closer Look at On-Ball Playmakers
In 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 […]
Beyond The Arch: Introducing a New Way to Understand the Game
New Archetypes for NBA players based on play type data.
How to Simulate NBA Games in Python
A quick and dirty overview of monte carlo simulation applied to basketball outcomes