The influx of analytics in basketball has propelled the NBA’s three-point movement. More shots are being taken from beyond the arc than ever before.
Author: Ahmed Cheema
With almost 25% of the NBA regular season done, we can now evaluate the performances of the league’s players using expected effective field goal percentage.
In this article, I show how to use official individual matchup data in order to quantify defensive performance in the NBA with Python.
In this article, I document the calculation of Expected Effective Field Goal Percentage (XeFG%) entirely through Python and its web-scraping capabilities.
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