A college student interested in analytics and engineering, I also happen to be a big basketball fan.
With the NBA finals now upon us, I was wondering whether the out come of game 1 had any indication on who would win the series and so I did some data collection over all the finals since 2000. Writer’s Comment: Recently data has taken a larger stage in public discussions on almost everything from […]
Inspiration: Recently I was talking with a friend about the Dallas Mavs and we were talking about why we did not see them coming this post season. What stood out is how Dallas was never considered a contender heading into this season and that was because it never felt like they had a complete team. […]
Reading Guide: Estimated Read Time: 15 minutes How I Got Started // How I Got Introduced To Data Engineering in Basketball Data Engineering in the NBA // The NBA Is Also A Tech Company What Is Data Like In the NCAA // My Struggles with Data in the NCAA Conclusion // My Concluding Thoughts How […]
Around 10 months ago, I released a series of Instagram posts where I attempted to predict NBA team records. I did my predicitons on 14 teams who I thought were interesting. Those predictions were based on simply adding up Win Shares from the previous season. When I first created those series of posts my objective […]
Recently, I witnessed some blasphemy on Instagram claiming that many point guards are better than Westbrook the list included players like Kyle Lowry, Chris Paul, and JOHN WALL. Now I get the rationale behind why someone would chose Paul or Lowry over Westbrook both guards are able shooters and defenders. For example, if I had […]
Here is something that baffles me, how did Kawhi suddenly become a top 3 player in the league according to NBA fans? One day before the Raptor’s Game 6 against the 76ers Kawhi was a top 8 player. However, after a couple of random bounces and an iconic celebration, Kawhi suddenly entered the GOAT conversation […]
Introduction: The NBA 2020 draft is approaching and there are many prospects and many mock drafts, and most importantly, lot’s of data-points. So what do I do? Apply statistics to make sense of all the prospects- duh. As a result, I will be taking a look at the upcoming NBA draft class and applying factor […]
Introduction: For the past couple of days, I have partaked in discussions on who the greatest center of all time is. I argued that Shaq is the best. My points of support alluded to the fact that he was an unstoppable beast and some other anecdotes. Unfortunately I was never convinced by the anecdotes and […]
Introduction As NBA fans every single one of us has heard at least one NBA hypothetical situation. I often think to myself- “What if Beverly never injured Westbrook, would OKC have won the championship that season”? Of course given my bias as an OKC fan, I like to assume that the answer to that question […]
This algorithm will be used to build the 2020 bracket. I will be sharing this bracket on HoopsData’s Instagram… Edit: The tournament has been cancelled 😦 A couple of days ago, I made a guide to making the “perfect” bracket. That bracket used my very limited human intellect and depended on my analysis of stats- […]
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