This analysis attempts to seek how utilization of players (moderately played, overplayed, or underplayed) affects the team's and players' performance.
This analysis attempts to seek whether NBA teams can maximize their scoring by attempting more 3-point field goals than 2-point field goals.
The original data contained information about all 2012 - 2013 season NBA games, with each row that logged various measures of contributions from a single player. This dataset was processed to create a new dataset, teamsData, that logged team's collective metrics (instead of individual players') in each row. The new dataset was saved as teamsData.RData inside a folder with the following path from this project's working directory: './data/processedData'.
| Columns from the original players' dataset | Newly created, corresponding columns in the teams' dataset | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | NumPlayers | OpponentNumPlayers | Total number of players who played in the game for the team (not including the opponent team) |
| Game.ID | GameID | Game ID unique to a single game | |
| Team | Team | OpponentTeam | |
| Player | N/A | ||
| Player.ID | N/A | ||
| Minutes.Played | N/A | Minutes played by a player; N/A for teamsData dataset | |
| Field.Goals | FieldGoals | OpponentFieldGoals | Number of field goals made. Does not include free throws made. |
| Field.Goal.Attempts | FieldGoalAttempts | OpponentFieldGoalAttempts | Number of field goals attempted. Does not included free throw attempts or field goal attempts during which a player was fouled. |
| Field.Goal.Percentage | FieldGoalPercentage | OpponentFieldGoalPercentage | Number of field goals made divided by that of field goals attempts |
| X3.Point.Field.Goals | ThreePointersMade | OpponentThreePointersMade | |
| X3.Point.Field.Goal.Attempts | ThreePointerAttempts | OpponentThreePointerAttempts | |
| X3.Point.Field.Percentage | ThreePointerPercentage | OpponentThreePointerPercentage | |
| Free.Throws | FreeThrows | OpponentFreeThrows | |
| Free.Throw.Attempts | FreeThrowAttempts | OpponentFreeThrowAttempts | |
| Free.Throw.Percentage | FreeThrowPercentage | OpponentFreeThrowPercentage | |
| Offensive.Rebounds | OffensiveRebounds | OpponentOffensiveRebounds | |
| Defensive.Rebounds | DefensiveRebounds | OpponentDefensiveRebounds | |
| Total.Rebounds | TotalRebounds | OpponentTotalRebounds | Number of offensive and defensive rebounds combined |
| Assists | Assists | OpponentAssists | |
| Steals | Steals | OpponentSteals | |
| Blocks | Blocks | OpponentBlocks | |
| Turnovers | Turnovers | OpponentTurnovers | |
| Personal.Fouls | PersonalFouls | OpponentPersonalFouls | Number of personal fouls committed by a player or team. Does not include team fouls or technical fouls |
| Points | Points | OpponentPoints | |
| Plus.Minus | PlusMinus | ||
| N/A | TwoPointersMade | OpponentTwoPointersMade | |
| N/A | TwoPointerAttempts | OpponentTwoPointerAttempts | |
| N/A | TwoPointerPercentage | OpponentTwoPointerPercentage | |
| N/A | Date | Date of the game | |
| N/A | HomeGame | 'home' or 'away' | |
| N/A | GameType | 'regular season' or 'playoffs' | |
| N/A | NumModeratelyPlayed | OpponentNumModeratelyPlayed | Number of moderately played players whose game minutes fall between 10 and 90 quantile of all NBA players' minutes from the 2012 - 2013 season (between 6.414 and 37.77 minutes, not inclusive) |
| N/A | NumOverplayed | OpponentNumOverplayed | Number of overplayed players whose game minutes equal or exceed the top 10% quantile of all NBA players' minutes from the 2012 - 2013 season (greater than or equal to 37.77 minutes) |
| N/A | NumUnderplayed | OpponentNumUnderplayed | Number of underplayed players whose game minutes fall below the bottom 10% quantile of all NBA players' minutes from the 2012 - 2013 season (less than or equal to 6.414 minutes) |
| N/A | GameOutcome | 'win' or 'loss' | |
| N/A | GameDuration | Game duration in minutes; 240 with no overtime; 265 with 1 overtime; 290 with two overtimes; 315 with three overtimes; and so on | |
| N/A | Overtime | Number of overtimes (0, 1, 2, 3, ...) | |