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Usage Rate – Regular Season vs. Playoffs
When we look at games in the playoffs, we see completely different strategies employed by teams. Star players seem to be more relied on than they would in the regular season, while players with...
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Playmaking in the Playoffs vs. the Regular Season
The 2019 NBA Playoffs have been excellent, with teams playing at their absolute best. We’ve seen teams like the Warriors and the Bucks absolutely dominate, but how have these teams, along with other...
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Clustering NBA Shot Charts (Part 1)
Methodology In the NBA, we often assign labels to players, not really looking in depth on what constitutes these labels. Something that we can do to figure out the “definition” of these labels and see...
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Clustering NBA Shot Charts (Part 2)
My previous blog post showed how cluster-able NBA shot charts were. I recently made a few improvements to the model and looked into things that I didn’t look into in the previous article. A quick...
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Elam Ending Analytics
With the NBA season being postponed, there has been a lack of basketball in the world. As a result, I thought it would be interesting to look into depth about how the Elam Ending has a place in the...
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Where do assists come from? (Part 1)
I recently tweeted some assist heat maps that were generated using 2015-16 SportVU data here. Although the individual player heat maps are interesting, I wanted to look at more league-wide trends. I...
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Playing With Win Probability Models
I recently developed a win probability model for the awesome py_ball package in Python. The package itself makes NBA/WNBA data accessible to a wide audience. If you haven’t seen it, you should...
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Where do assists come from? (Part 2)
A few weeks ago, I did some analysis with archived SportVU Player Tracking data (2015-16), looking at where on the court assists come from. You can read about that analysis at these links: Blog post:...
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Finding Determinants of NBA Shot Probability using Interpretable Machine...
This is a project that I am presenting as a poster at the CMU Sports Analytics Conference. A full version of this research (and associated code) is here: https://github.com/avyayv/CMSACRepo. You may...
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Symbiosis in the NBA
It’s been a while since I’ve done an NBA analytics project, but I’ve recently been intrigued by player-player interactions within teams. Oftentimes, fans have a hunch that two players “mesh” well...
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