Using Tracking Shot Filter Data To Measure Shot Difficulty and Shot Making

 Posted on August 31, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

The tracking shot data on NBA Stats allows us to get shooting data based on closest defender distance, shot clock range, touch time and number of dribbles. Using this data we can get a rough measure of shot making by comparing how they shoot compared to the league average for each tracking shot filter bucket. An example of a filter bucket would be: closest defender 4-6 feet, shot clock 15-7, touch time < 2 seconds, 0 dribbles, 3pt FGA. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on August 9, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Chuck Norris and Hacking Twitter Can Killing Cookies Save Journalism? - “The experience of NPO is perhaps the strongest counter-example to some of the biggest claims made in defense of targeted advertising based on tracking users online. Microtargeting is supposed to help advertisers reach the right people, but advertisers converted more new customers using the contextual approach. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on August 2, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention You Are Not So Smart 185 - Masks Economics is a disgrace - “Elite departments are the gatekeepers of the economics profession. They circle wagons around other elites. MIT, Harvard, and Chicago define what is good research. They run two of the top five journals that many elite departments require for tenure. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on July 5, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: How Citizen Journalism & Education Reform Can Save Us from Bad Science Why Economics Needs More Black Women - “The exposure that people get in intro to econ classes is to consider “all things equal,” assuming racism doesn’t exist and society is perfect. That’s what people are trained on. We need a more nuanced approach. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on June 21, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Episode 111: How “Small Business” Rhetoric Is Used to Protect Corporate America The Economy Is Reeling. The Tech Giants Spy Opportunity. The Allure of Simplicity - “Anyone who says they can explain what is going on with one single insight or in a single tweet thread or in a 2 minute “here’s one weird metric that explains everything”, that person is wrong. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on June 7, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: News Brief: Cops Push “Outside Agitator” Line, Exploit Real Fears of Far Right Violence to Delegitimize Protests Corporations tweet support for Black Lives Matter. Their FEC filings tell a different story. The activist dismantling racist police algorithms - “Algorithms have no place in policing. I think it’s crucial that we understand that there are lives at stake. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on May 31, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: It’s time to maintain Epistemic Humility—Knowing Your Limits in a Pandemic - “If you want to reduce overconfidence in yourself or others, just ask: What are the reasons to think this claim may be mistaken? Under what conditions would this be wrong?” Research reveals the scope of Google’s digital ecosystem dominance - “Earlier this year, Google announced plans to retire the third-party “cookie. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on May 24, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Episode 110: The Shiny-Object Psychology of American Capitalist “Innovation” Behind the Big Tech antitrust backlash: A turning point for America Aiming for novelty in coronavirus coverage, journalists end up sensationalizing the trivial and untrue - “Yet the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how journalism’s traditional bias for novelty can result in front-page, top-of-the-broadcast news stories that are provably inaccurate, and even occasionally fictional. [Read More]
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NBA Tracking Shot Stat Video Examples

 Posted on May 16, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

The stats for the tracking data on stats.nba.com allow for filtering by period. This means that when a player makes or misses a single 2 or 3-pointer in a quarter we can get figure out how that shot was classified by the tracking filters. Here are some examples of shots for each closest defender distance filter.

3s:

Wide Open:

Open:

Tight:

Very Tight:

At Rim:

Wide Open:

Open:

Tight:

Very Tight:

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on May 3, 2020  |  5 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: It’s Time To Learn “Even if prevention wasn’t possible, we could have had the supplies we needed. They were for sale. But someone has to decide it is worth keeping massive expensive inventories that are rarely used. A hospital owned by a corporation that wants to stay lean to keep profits high, is unlikely to do this. [Read More]
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