Team Shooting Stars: Proposal

Project Description

The aim of this project is to get deeper knowledge into the current trend in NBA and what makes a team succeed, so the questions we are going to answer are:
1. Is the role of centre becoming less and less important NBA?
2. Are 3-point-shooting teams more likely to win through the past ten years?
3. What is the most important quality of a championship team?
4. Is there a indicator of a player’s best performance in career?
5. What make 2011 Dallas mavericks and 1996 Houston Rockets win the championship?

Schedule

Academic Studying Week	Task	Done By	Status
Week 7
1	Brainstorm project topic and scope	Everyone	Completed
Week 8
1	Formulate ideas	Everyone	Completed
2	Consulting Prof	Everyone	Completed
3	Deciding on tools/techniques to use	Everyone	Completed
4	Upload detail project proposal	Everyone	Completed
Week 9
1	Data preparation, consolidation, preprocessing and cleaning	Everyone	Not Completed
Week 10
1	Update Wiki page	Everyone	Not Completed
2	Study Treemap		Not Completed
3	Study Multi-Series Line Chart		Not Completed
Week 11 & 12
1	Web App Developer	Everyone	Not Completed
Week 13
1	Do poster, presentation preparation	Everyone	Not Completed
Week 14
1	Presentation	Everyone	Not Completed
Week 15
1	Submission of project poster	Everyone	Not Completed
2	Submission of final project paper and artifacts	Everyone	Not Completed
Week 16
1	Visual Analytics Poster Night	Everyone	Not Completed

TOOLS

Our team decided to use the following tools for analysis:

• 1. Tableau:
     • Treemap
     • Sunburst Charts
     • Parallel Plots
  2. QGIS:
     • Geospatial Analysis: To see if there’s any correlation between
  3. JMP:
     • Clustering Analysis
     • Logistic Regression: The outcome of the analysis will usually be based on a success or failure of the game. Hence to do a regression analysis on factors for success of a game, we need to use logistic regression as the dependent variable is categorical in nature
     • Time Series Analysis: Basketball Reference consists of 5 years’ worth of dataset. Thus it’s worth doing a time series analysis on player performance, team performance, change in player’s role and several other factors

PRIOR WORK & REFERENCES

• 1. Success Factors in NBA:
     • http://www.basketball-reference.com/about/factors.html
  2. The length and success of NBA careers:
     • Coates, Dennis; Oguntimein, Babatunde. International Journal of Sport Finance 5.1 (Feb 2010): 4-26.
  3. Racial Discrimination among NBA referees:
     • http://ww2.amstat.org//Chapters/boston/nessis07/presentation_material/Justin_Wolfers.pdf