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Basketball is a dualistic sport: all players compete on both offense and defense, and the core strategies of basketball revolve around scoring points on offense and preventing points on defense. However, conventional basketball statistics emphasize offensive performance much more than more »
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Increasingly, GMs, owners, and coaches are employing advanced metrics and statistical tools for scouting, drafting, and trading personnel. This panel, featuring NBA front-office staff, commentators, and analysts, will discuss key topics such as: How has the shortened season impacted which more »
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In December, 2011 Turner Sports partnered with the MIT Media Lab to create the SlamForce Net, a basketball net that incorporates segments of conductive fiber whose resistance changes with degree of stretch. By measuring this resistance over time, hardware associated more »
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We introduce a novel Skills Plus Minus (“SPM”) framework to measure on-court chemistry in basketball. First, we evaluate each player’s offense and defense in the SPM framework based on three basic categories of skills: scoring, rebounding, and ball-handling. We then more »
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This paper investigates spatial and visual analytics as means to enhance basketball expertise. We introduce CourtVision, a new ensemble of analytical techniques designed to quantify, visualize, and communicate spatial aspects of NBA performance with unprecedented precision and clarity. We propose more »
Michael McCann, Legal Analyst and SI.com Columnist for Sports Illustrated While the NFL and NBA lockouts were resolved before either league suffered permanent injury, the work stoppages still caused economic harm (including harm to third-party apparel makers, concessionaires and others), led more »
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Ever wondered why there are only 5 positions in basketball or how a player’s position is determined? So did we. But now, using Ayasdi’s proprietary data analysis engine and decades of computational topology research at Stanford, we have mathematically categorized more »
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Abstract: I present a combination of player evaluation techniques that significantly outperforms regularized adjusted +/- in prediction accuracy. This approach models a basketball game as a finite state machine, which is a behavior model composed of a finite number of more »
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Adjusted plus/minus has grown in popularity as an NBA player evaluation technique but remains controversial and can yield results which many basketball experts find counterintuitive. We present a framework for evaluating adjusted plus/minus and an enhancement to the technique which more »
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This panel features industry professionals who focus on evaluating teams and personnel from an analytical perspective. Their work experience ranges from prominent roles for NBA teams to headline writers for major sports media outlets to authors of basketball analytics books. more »
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Abstract: The major difficulty in evaluating individual player performance in basketball is adjusting for interaction effects by teammates. With the advent of play-by-play data, the plus-minus statistic was created to address this issue [5]. While variations on this statistic (ex: more »
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An in-depth discussion, specific to the game of basketball, of the tools and models used to analyze player and lineup performance. VIDEO WAS NOT RECORDED FOR THIS PANEL
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MIT Tech TV This panel examines the importance of analytical methods in basketball. With APBRmetrics gaining acceptance and respect around the NBA, teams are increasingly using statistical analysis to gain a competitive edge over their opponents. Panelists from ESPN and more »
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MIT Tech TV This panel examines the growing importance of analytical methods in basketball. With APBRmetrics gaining acceptance and respect around the NBA, teams are increasingly using statistical analysis to gain a competitive edge over their opponents. Panelists from ESPN more »
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Bill James changed the game of baseball with his ground-breaking introduction of advanced statistical analysis. But can more still be done? And why hasn’t the box score evolved to incorporate these widely accepted stats? These panelists will discuss the inherent more »
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