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Modeling Player and Team Performance in Basketball
Zachary Terner, Alexander Franks
In recent years, analytics has started to revolutionize the game of basketball: quantitative analyses of the game inform team strategy, management of player health and fitness, and…
Meta-Analytics: Tools for Understanding the Statistical Properties of Sports Metrics
Alexander Franks, Alexander D'Amour, Daniel Cervone +1
In sports, there is a constant effort to improve metrics which assess player ability, but there has been almost no effort to quantify and compare existing metrics. Any individual m…
Characterizing the spatial structure of defensive skill in professional basketball
Alexander Franks, Andrew Miller, Luke Bornn +1
Although basketball is a dualistic sport, with all players competing on both offense and defense, almost all of the sport's conventional metrics are designed to summarize offensive…