NBA Player Shooting Motions: A Data Dump January 24, 2021 Over 5 years ago, I published my first research on NBA motion tracking data . Where most analysis and research at that time (and still today...
Free Throw Deep Dives: Accuracy Scatter Plots May 29, 2017 In an effort to fill the void during this year's Superbowl-like interlude before the NBA Finals, I have added one more tool to my series...
Free Throw Deep Dives: The Windup and the Release May 06, 2017 Part three of an infrequent series . Click here to go straight to the interactive tool. In previous free throw deep dives, I used SportVU...
Free Throw Deep Dives: Picking Your Spot January 21, 2017 Note: Similar to my recent " deflategate " post, the following utilizes SportVU data on player and ball position. Sadly, this dat...
Deflategate follow up: Game charts for all 30 NBA teams January 09, 2017 In my NBA deflategate analysis , I shared charts for several teams that showed game by game coefficient of restitution for home games. Coef...
A Deflategate Analysis for the NBA January 08, 2017 Phil Jackson, 1986 : "We'd try to take some air out of the ball. You see, on the ball it says something like 'inflate ...
Bonus Tim Duncan Chart - Bank Shots July 16, 2016 On the occasion of Tim Duncan's retirement earlier this week, I used SportVU motion tracking data to call attention to an unnoticed elem...
The weirdest thing about Tim Duncan July 11, 2016 Tim Duncan announced his retirement today, after 19 seasons in the NBA. On Duncan and his impact to the game, there is no shortage of artic...
Free Throw Deep Dives: Launch Angle March 09, 2016 This is the first post in a planned series of deep dives into free throw shooting (and shooting in general). Using SportVU data , w...
AAAAIIIIIRRR BALL.............AAAAIIIIIRRR BALL............. February 14, 2016 Some All Star break frivolity. The earliest documented use of the term "air ball" dates back to a 1967 article in the Hayward R...
Kind of a Drag August 22, 2015 Just a heads up that this post is pretty heavy on math and physics: differential equations, integrals, drag coefficients, air density at v...
Introducing ShArc: Shot Arc Analysis May 26, 2015 This post has been in the works for several months now, and is the result of a deep dive into the NBA's SportVU motion tracking data . ...