A Method for Using Player Tracking Data in Basketball to Learn Player Skills and Predict Team Performance.

Player tracking data represents a revolutionary new data source for basketball analysis, in which essentially every aspect of a player's performance is tracked and can be analyzed numerically. We suggest a way by which this data set, when coupled with a network-style model of the offense that r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brian Skinner, Stephen J Guy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4564231?pdf=render