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Bracket making season is finally upon us. If you know me personally, then you know this is one of my favorite times of the year. The 1 in...

In a previous article, I talked about how shooting variance can have a huge impact on single games. This is still very true, and we can...

Something that has been talked about on NBA nerd Twitter recently is why the opponents of the Boston Celtics have consistently missed...

Now that we are less than four weeks away from Selection Sunday, I thought it would be a good time to do a project that involves college...

Shot selection is everything, right? On offense and defense, it feels like where opponents shoot from and what types of shots they take...

This is going to be a quick article about a different way I wanted to visualize shot data. I have already done this using shot charts, as...

We are at almost 20 games into this season, but the voting for the 2021 All-Star game just opened up today. That seems pretty early, but...

This project is a continuation of my last few projects where I looked at different applications of NBA shot data from 2015-2020. While my...

This project is continuing to build off of the shot data I have been using for my last couple of projects. For this project, I wanted to...

This project was similar to the last project, but this is looking at shot zone rather than exact location in feet. For the data I used,...

In the NBA, efficiency is everything. How efficient you are on offense determines if you will win or lose every single game. That is why...

Every fan of any team in the history of team sports has said the following phrase after a loss: "We just got unlucky tonight." How much...

The NBA CBA, or Collective Bargaining Agreement, is incredibly important. The NBA as we know it would not exist without it. The CBA sets...

Defense wins championships. At least, that is the saying for the NFL. But does this apply to basketball? When we think of the greatest...

Points per game is an outdated statistic. We used to use points per game to determine which NBA teams had the best offense in the league....