This is my first work on a topic other than professional basketball. If you have good or bad feedback after reading, let me know on Twitter. Disclaimer: I am not a trained epidemiologist, nor do I hold any formal social science qualifications. My interest in writing about this topic came from a years-long fascination with research on behavioral psychology, and human misconceptions of reality formed from our innate perceptions. If
April 20, 2020
Outside Shooting and Winning
All the data referenced below comes from basketball-reference.com. The data was gathered and visualizations were made using Python (the pandas and seaborn packages, specifically). I also referenced Syed Sadat Nazrul’s Medium post on towardsdatascience.com for scraping tabular data from the basketball-reference.com team page for each franchise. BB1: A Little League History (1947 – 2020) We need not mention that the style of play in the NBA has changed dramatically over