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BasketballAnalyzeR

Contains data and code to accompany the book
P. Zuccolotto and M. Manisera (2020) Basketball Data Science. Applications with R. CRC Press. ISBN 9781138600799.

Developers

Marco Sandri, Paola Zuccolotto, Marica Manisera
Big and Open Data Innovation Laboratory (BODaI-Lab)
https://bodai.unibs.it/
University of Brescia, Italy

Installation

# From CRAN:
install.packages("BasketballAnalyzeR")

# From Github (development version):
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("sndmrc/BasketballAnalyzeR"")

Warning

If you want to reproduce the figures contained in the book of Zuccolotto and Manisera (2020) and if the version of your R machine is >= 3.6.0, you need to type

RNGkind(sample.kind = "Rounding")

at the beginning of your working session.

Links

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BasketballAnalyzeR

Visit the Basketball Analyzer website at: bdsports.unibs.it/basketballanalyzer/

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install.packages('BasketballAnalyzeR')

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Version

0.8.1

License

GPL (>= 2.0)

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Repository

https://github.com/sndmrc/BasketballAnalyzeR/

Maintainer

Marco Sandri

Last Published

October 30th, 2025

Functions in BasketballAnalyzeR (0.8.1)

Draws a bar-line plot

Draws a bubble plot

Calculates possessions, pace, offensive and defensive rating, and Four Factors

Add lines of NBA court to an existing ggplot2 plot

Reports whether x is a 'MDSmap' object

Computes and plots kernel density estimation of shots with respect to a concurrent variable

Inequality analysis

Plots expected points of shots as a function of the distance from the basket (default) or another variable

Reports whether x is a 'hclustering' object

Reports whether x is a 'fourfactors' object

Reports whether x is a 'inequality' object.

Reports whether x is a 'kclustering' object

Reports whether x is a 'simplereg' object

Reports whether x is a 'variability' object

Reports whether x is a 'networkdata' object

is.corranalysis

Reports whether x is a 'corranalysis' object

plot.hclustering

Plots hierarchical clustering from a 'hclustering' object

Draws radial plots for player profiles

K-means cluster analysis

Draws two-dimensional plots for multidimensional scaling (MDS) from a 'MDSmap' object

Draws a scatter plot or a matrix of scatter plots

Plots different kinds of charts based on shot coordinates

Plot simple regression from a 'simplereg' object

plot.fourfactors

Plot possessions, pace, offensive and defensive rating, and Four Factors from a 'fourfactors' object

plot.variability

Plots a variability diagram from a 'variability' object

Plots a network from a 'assistnet' object

plot.inequality

Plot Lorenz curve from a 'inequality' object

plot.kclustering

Plot k-means clustering from a 'kclustering' object

Plots scoring probability of shots as a function of a given variable

plot.corranalysis

Plots the correlation matrix and the correlation network from a 'corranalysis' object

Simple linear and nonparametric regression

Variability analysis

Investigates the network of assists-shots in a team

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) in 2 dimensions

Teams box scores dataset - NBA 2017-2018

PbPmanipulation

Adapts the standard file supplied by BigDataBall to the format required by BasketballAnalyzeR

CreateRadialPlot

R function CreateRadialPlot by William D. Vickers, freely downloadable from the web

Calculate Team, Opponents and Players box scores (Tbox, Obox and Pbox)

Correlation analysis

Tadd dataset - NBA 2017-2018

Opponents box scores dataset - NBA 2017-2018

Players box scores dataset - NBA 2017-2018

Play-by-play dataset - NBA 2017-2018

Agglomerative hierarchical clustering