If you have not heard yet, the NBA will introduce for the first time an in-season tournament, which essentially tries to “copy” the national cups that European soccer leagues have (without however, adding new games for the teams – until the final). While you can find all the details here, the main point is that… Read More Upping the Ante at the NBA In-Season Tournament
While in the NBA you will rarely see a game’s stats sheet mention metrics like PER and PIR, this is quiet the norm for leagues around the world. In fact, these metrics are used to award game MVPs in these leagues – and as you can imagine many times the results are strange to say… Read More Single game player contribution metrics in basketball
Yesterday the G-league announced that it will experiment with a new free throw rule in order to reduce the duration of the game. In particular, instead of awarding one, two or three free throws depending on the violation, it will award one free throw that will be worth one, two or three points respectively. Many… Read More Not all free throws are created equal anymore … at the G-League
If the regular season serves as an indicator for what we will see in the playofss, we are certainly in for a treat! With the playoffs for the Basketball Champions League right around the corner, we make our predictions – that will keep being updated as the playoffs progress. First we start with the final… Read More Basketball Champions League Predictions: Playoffs 2017-18
Evaluating lineups has traditionally been one of the tasks that “analytics” are commissioned with in basketball (and other sports with frequent substitutions). 5, 3 and 2 men lineups are typically analyzed, with the latter two offering a larger sample to work with. The metric that is typically utilized to evaluate the performance of a lineup… Read More Basketball Lineup Ratings: a Bayesian Adjustment Approach
Shooting charts have been an integral part of a basketball game’s summary for quiet some time now. Fans like visual information and can easily grasp it. However, if one wants to understand the shooting patterns of teams/players and how they differ (and how potentially this can drive pre-game scouting and in-game strategy) heuristic comparison of… Read More A Shooting Dictionary for Players and Teams in Basketball Champions League
A recent article described how the volume of three-point shots taken in the Basketball Champions League (BCL) has shown an increasing trend – in alignment with the trend in the NBA that has been observed for several years now and has coincided with the ascent of the analytics movement in the sport. The analytical explanation of… Read More Offensive and Defensive Efficiency in Basketball Champions League
I have been wanting to make my projections for the Euroleague for a long time now but unfortunately I have not been able to find a good data source for the input data required from our Basketball Prediction Matchup engine. So I decided to use the Elo rating to make my projections. The Elo rating… Read More Projecting the Euroleague Playoffs: The Elo Rating System
If you are reading this post most probably you know that a lot of work has been done in developing advanced metrics for evaluating players. The objective of all these metrics is to try an quantify the impact of each player in winning. There are metrics such as win shares, wins over replacement etc. that… Read More Wins Contributed by NBA Players
This year FIBA launched a new European professional competition for basketball clubs, namely, Basketball Champions League (BCL). A total of 52 teams from 31 European leagues participated in the inaugural season of BCL and the actual format of the competition can be found on the league’s site. Currently the competition is at the first round… Read More Predicting the Basketball Champions League Tournament using Data
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