In working on writing my NBA shooting accuracy article I came up with a neat way to visualize different NBA player’s shot distributions and how…
Shooting accuracy is one of the most important factors in an NBA player’s success. While easy to determine by eye test, I can’t find a…
In honor of the NBA officially returning to play this week, I wanted to make my predictions about the NBA finals. There is one glaring…
One of the most important factors that go into which team will win a game is the home court advantage of that team. In both…
This one hurts to write. I spent four years in sunny Dayton, Ohio studying mathematics at the University of Dayton. We love our basketball. In…
In the past few years the Western Conference teams have been hugely disadvantaged when it comes to making the NBA Finals. We’ll show here that,…
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Every sports fan understands that the outcome of a particular game has a degree of randomness to it. If two teams are equally matched and…
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The Difficulty in Ranking and Rating Teams One of the central problems in sports analytics is rating teams and generating rankings. Historically, the best method…