basketball

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…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

Remembering Kobe Through Data

I built this visual to remind us the impact that he had on people off the court. It is easy…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

Beyond The Arch: A Closer Look at Spot-Up Wings

Taking a deeper dive in to the Spot-Up Wing player archetype

5 years ago

To Start or Not to Start, That is the Question (For the Pelicans)

#1 overall pick of the 2019 draft, Zion Williamson, is currently out with a torn lateral meniscus. With an initial…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

Beyond The Arch: Introducing a New Way to Understand the Game

New Archetypes for NBA players based on play type data.

5 years ago

How to Simulate NBA Games in Python

A quick and dirty overview of monte carlo simulation applied to basketball outcomes

5 years ago

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