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Binomial Basketball

Predicting NBA scores and statistics with Bayesian models

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Chris Paul's Legendary Playmaking Career

In our previous post, we developed a Bayesian Hierarchical model for playmaking in the NBA.

The full Stan model is at the bottom, but briefly, we learn a latent playmaking variable for each player that predicts their downstream playmaking...

a month ago
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Bayesian NBA Playmaking Modeling

If you’re a subscriber, you’ve probably noticed we’re on a bit of a latent skill modeling kick. First it was shooting ability, then hustling. In this post, we’re going to take a look at modeling players’ underlying playmaking ability

The...

3 months ago
6

Bayesian Modeling of Hustle in the NBA

Here, we’re looking at how hard players are working. This might be our least serious model yet, but I certainly had a lot of fun working on it.

The Model

As always, the Stan full model is at the bottom of the post. For each player, we l...

3 months ago
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Modeling True Shooting Ability

Previously, we’ve developed a comprehensive hierarchical Bayesian model that we applied to FT shooting and 3PT shooting separately.

Here, we develop a more unified model that hierarchically learns each player’s latent shooting ability, by...

3 months ago
10

Comprehensive NBA 3PT Modeling

Previously, we wrote up our comprehensive FT model.

Here, we adapt this same model to 3PT shooting.

Model

The full Stan model is at the bottom of this post. At a high level, we’re using a hierarchical binomial model, pooled by player p...

4 months ago
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