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Teams that Perform Best at Home
It is a well-known phenomenon that teams generally perform better during home games than during away games. However, some teams benefit from home court advantage much more than other teams. Using the NBA games dataset for the 2015…
Read More »Understanding point margins for point spread betting
Understanding basketball’s distribution of point margins can be helpful to many basketball fans, especially those who participate in point spread betting. In this post, I will attempt to show the distribution of point margins and how understanding it…
Read More »Source of Home Court Advantage
If you ever watched a sports game, you’ve probably heard of the term “home court advantage“. Home court advantage refers to the notion that a team has a certain advantage over its opponent while playing at a home…
Read More »Does a high number of offensive rebounds indicate a great game performance?
For each basketball game, a team’s performance metrics are measured through various tallies, and one of those metrics is offensive rebounds. After a missed shot, an offensive rebound gives a team another opportunity to score against its opponent….
Read More »A Look into the Top 50 Scoring Seasons
This post extracts the top 50 scoring seasons since 1981, the introduction of the 3-point line. This new mechanic undoubtedly changed the way players score, but how do the top scorers actually differ? You can view an interactive…
Read More »The Evolution of the 3-Point Shot
In the past few years, we’ve seen various statistics showing the NBA audience all the new 3-point records and how differently the 3-point line is used now. For comparison, the leader of the ’87 – ’88 season was…
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