Alpha Release Report

Overview

The goal of this project is to visualize how data analytics can provide quality insights to offensive scheming. I will be doing this by visualizing different NBA players shot selections throughout time. Specifically, where players excel at shooting the ball and where they don’t, this project aims to answer the question of where players should shoot the ball more often to improve overall team efficiency. I will be using simple metrics such as points per game (PPG) to create different shot chart visuals that provide more context to a player's game that may often go missed when one is only watching a game.

Completed Features

  1. Render a basketball shot chart using D3
  2. Create simple bar graph of players PPG
  3. Create Scatterplot of players Player Efficiency Rating (PER)

Upcoming Milestones

  1. Filter data by player, year, and team
  2. Render players shot selection on graphic

Roadblocks

I have been stuck on how to properly render a heatmap of a players shot selection on the D3 graph I created. I've been attempting to scale the data so it fits the proportions of the graph I created. In addition to this, I am also unsure how I'm going to provide an adequate analysis to answer my hypothesis.