Comments on: Do NBA Players Improve at Shooting Free Throws? https://www.thespax.com/nba/do-nba-players-improve-at-shooting-free-throws/ Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:57:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.8 By: Ahmed Cheema https://www.thespax.com/nba/do-nba-players-improve-at-shooting-free-throws/#comment-4514 Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:57:49 +0000 https://www.thespax.com/?p=3683#comment-4514 In reply to Phil.

I believe those specific percentages did not account for a survivorship bias, but the graph of age vs free throw percentage only includes players who played at least ten seasons in order to account for the players who may have flamed out due to their poor shooting. Additionally, the histogram shown later in the article is an analysis based on individual players. It looks for the change in free throw percentage between two seasons from the same player, which seems to suggest that free throw shooting is more random than expected.

]]> By: Phil https://www.thespax.com/nba/do-nba-players-improve-at-shooting-free-throws/#comment-4512 Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:04:21 +0000 https://www.thespax.com/?p=3683#comment-4512 “Since 1997, rookies have collectively hit 72.03% of their free throws versus 73.60% for second-year players. All other veterans combined for a free throw percentage of 76.04%. There’s definitely a trend there.”
Does this analysis control for player ID? In other words, is the trend showing that only good shooters remain in the league for multiple years, or is it showing that individual players improve over time?

]]>