Players Movements and Team Shooting Performance: a Data Mining approach for Basketball
Abstract
In the domain of Sport Analytics, Global Positioning Systems devices are intensively used as they permit to retrieve players' movements. Team sports' managers and coaches are interested on the relation between players' patterns of movements and team performance, in order to better manage their team. In this paper we propose a Cluster Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling approach to find and describe separate patterns of players movements. Using real data of multiple professional basketball teams, we find, consistently over different case studies, that in the defensive clusters players are close one to another while the transition cluster are characterized by a large space among them. Moreover, we find the pattern of players' positioning that produce the best shooting performance.
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@article{arxiv.1805.02501,
title = {Players Movements and Team Shooting Performance: a Data Mining approach for Basketball},
author = {Rodolfo Metulini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.02501},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
10 pages, 2 figures, proceeding of the 49th Scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1707.00883