Hey JP, great article - I wasn't aware that shot heatmaps were capped! Your updated heatmap plots the polar coordinates on a cartesian map. While this is great for comparing shots against distance from the basket, it is a bit jarring to get used to. Have you thought about plotting the polar points on a polar graph itself? Or is that just too similar to plotting x/y on a cartesian
Interesting idea. Have you run into issues presenting polar coordinates as opposed to Cartesian coordinates? I find it's difficult to translate to nontechnical viewers what polar coordinates even are and why you would do it.
I do really like your scale of PTS/100POS versus the Goldsberry league average comparison too. How did you pick that metric over say, expected value?
Hey JP, great article - I wasn't aware that shot heatmaps were capped! Your updated heatmap plots the polar coordinates on a cartesian map. While this is great for comparing shots against distance from the basket, it is a bit jarring to get used to. Have you thought about plotting the polar points on a polar graph itself? Or is that just too similar to plotting x/y on a cartesian
Interesting idea. Have you run into issues presenting polar coordinates as opposed to Cartesian coordinates? I find it's difficult to translate to nontechnical viewers what polar coordinates even are and why you would do it.
I do really like your scale of PTS/100POS versus the Goldsberry league average comparison too. How did you pick that metric over say, expected value?
Enjoyed this start to finish and I have never even followed basketball. Looking forward to the next article
This is tremendous insight--I look forward to seeing more!
-DSMok1