Analysis of Basketball Data
Description
Collection of tools to work with European basketball data. Functions available are related to friendly
web scraping, data management and visualization. Data were obtained from ,
and , following the instructions
of their respectives robots.txt files, when available. Box score data are available for the three leagues.
Play-by-play and spatial shooting data are also available for the Spanish league. Methods for analysis include a
population pyramid, 2D plots, circular plots of players' percentiles, plots of players' monthly/yearly stats,
team heatmaps, team shooting plots, team four factors plots, cross-tables with the results of regular season games,
maps of nationalities, combinations of lineups, possessions-related variables, timeouts,
performance by periods, personal fouls, offensive rebounds and different types of shooting charts.
Please see Vinue (2020) and Vinue (2024) .