Basketball's "Hidden Positions"

[Darth Snow]

http://gizmodo.com/5991310/the-10-hidden-positions-in-basketball-in-beautiful-visualizations

a little thick, but basically uses 3d modeling to convert stats and shows you how players tend to group.

Basically, Alagappan looks at what you're doing and where you're doing it. Instead of calling the tallest guy on the court the center, figure out if he's primarily a scorer—from the post or as a shooter?—or a rebounder or a defender. And then do similar for everyone else. The data is then laid onto topological charts, which relate the data sets into shapes.
Alagappan's original paper from last year, presented at MIT's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, had 13 possible positions. The new list has been refined to 10, with many of the old positions changed from qualitative to descriptive terms. "3-point slasher" and "Two-way All-Star" replace designations like "One-of-a-kind" and "All-NBA-1st-Team"

 

[J.R. Ewing]

I thought this thread was going to be a about a class Shawn Kemp was teaching.

 

[BuffNut99]

 

[Darth Snow]

some find it interesting. others just want to masturbate.

 

[LaserDeathHawk]

others will use it as an excuse for a cheap shot

You're a "rim attacking ball handler" Darth.



actually the method is pretty interesting and the visuals are cool

 

[Darth Snow]

others will use it as an excuse for a cheap shot

You're a "rim attacking ball handler" Darth.



actually the method is pretty interesting and the visuals are cool

better to be above the rim than under it.