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Basketball Statistician's Digest: Player Statistics at Home vs Away

From Basketball Geek By Ryan in Data Analysis
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"... Players enter the game under varying conditions, thus the distribution of game situations is not uniform across all players. ..."

"... The most basic game situation to study is home vs away. We’re all familiar with how much a team’s home court advantage is worth in terms of points or winning percentage, but what about the relationship between a player’s eFG% or turnovers per possession at home vs away? ..."

"... These results, however, should not surprise anyone. Obviously there is a connection between home vs away stats. Hopefully, however, this helps answer the magnitude of the relationship between a player’s stats at home vs away. ..."

"... This data allows us to quantify the relationship between various player stats at home vs away. Other than the before mentioned 3FG% models, all of the linear models showed the home stats to be statistically significant for predicting the away stats. ..."

"... but if you evened up the axes on the plots so that they showed square intervals (i.e. the x axis should be the same as the y), the linear fit would give you visual information more clearly and directly. Specifically, the extent to which the linear fit is not a line (45 deg) from the bottom left to the top right would show a) how much it changes home v. road, and b) which players are most affected. ..."

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