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The Anatomy of Corner 3s in the NBA: What makes them efficient, how are they generated and how can defenses respond?
Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Kirk Goldsberry
Modern basketball is all about creating efficient shots, that is, shots with high payoff. This is not necessarily equivalent to creating looks with the highest probability of succe…
DeepHoops: Evaluating Micro-Actions in Basketball Using Deep Feature Representations of Spatio-Temporal Data
Anthony Sicilia, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Kirk Goldsberry
How much is an on-ball screen worth? How much is a backdoor cut away from the ball worth? Basketball is one of a number of sports which, within the past decade, have seen an explos…
A Multiresolution Stochastic Process Model for Predicting Basketball Possession Outcomes
Daniel Cervone, Alex D'Amour, Luke Bornn +1
Basketball games evolve continuously in space and time as players constantly interact with their teammates, the opposing team, and the ball. However, current analyses of basketball…
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…
Factorized Point Process Intensities: A Spatial Analysis of Professional Basketball
Andrew Miller, Luke Bornn, Ryan Adams +1
We develop a machine learning approach to represent and analyze the underlying spatial structure that governs shot selection among professional basketball players in the NBA. Typic…