basketball

TNT described NBA player Anthony Davis’ growth and accompanied the discussion with a…

Todd Lindeman and Lazaro Gamio for the Washington Post explored shooting patterns for…

Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, looked at how rebounds work in…

After the popularity of The Upshot’s baseball fandom map, it’s no surprise the…

With player tracking installed in all of the NBA arenas, the sports analytics…

The NBA has been kind of gaga over data the past few years,…

Kirk Goldsberry talks the rise of analytics usage in the NBA. With cameras…

With the start of the NBA playoffs tomorrow, it’s worth coming back to…

Along the same lines as their NFL fan maps, Facebook had a closer…

Math professor Jeff Bergen explains the odds of picking a perfect bracket.…

ESPN profiled professional basketball gambler Bob Voulgaris. He shoots a lot of data into a predictive model for NBA games and then makes bets based on simulations. His ROI is falling.

By now, everyone’s heard of Moneyball. Applying statistics to baseball to build the…

In the 1960s, the basketball uniform was about small, tight shorts and form-fitting…

Remember geographer Kirk Goldsberry’s analysis of shot efficiency on the basketball court? Jeremy…

For the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference a few weeks ago, Stanford biomechanical…

With NCAA March Madness in full swing, the basketball graphics are out in…

Kirk Goldsberry, an assistant professor of geography at Michigan State, applies his skills…

Sometimes power dunks don’t get much credit, because it’s hard to see on…

Nate Silver looks at past players who have scored 20 or more points,…

Hot off the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Sean Gregory argues for more…