Half-court shot stats in the NBA
May 4, 2011 7:24 AM Subscribe
Where can I find statistics on half-court shots in the NBA?
I haven't found any basketball statistics site that breaks down any shot length beyond the 3-point line. (I did see a few shots in the paint/shots at the rim/midrange statistics.) What I'd like to find is just the overall NBA league half-court (or greater) shots made/attempted for the previous regular season. Anything more complex than that would be excellent but unnecessary.
I haven't found any basketball statistics site that breaks down any shot length beyond the 3-point line. (I did see a few shots in the paint/shots at the rim/midrange statistics.) What I'd like to find is just the overall NBA league half-court (or greater) shots made/attempted for the previous regular season. Anything more complex than that would be excellent but unnecessary.
ugh. scratch that he only does NCAA stats
NPR Link
Stat Guy (Ken Pomeroy) Link
posted by zombieApoc at 8:10 AM on May 4, 2011
NPR Link
Stat Guy (Ken Pomeroy) Link
posted by zombieApoc at 8:10 AM on May 4, 2011
Best answer: Here's a rough visualization, but it doesn't go beyond half court.
How interested are you? Here's the play index data with shot locations.
posted by milkrate at 8:11 AM on May 4, 2011
How interested are you? Here's the play index data with shot locations.
posted by milkrate at 8:11 AM on May 4, 2011
Response by poster: Milkrate : the data at Basketball Geek might work - I'll have to check to see how deep the Y coordinates run there, and what happens for full-court shots. It may work. Only problem is that my access will be limited to a cell phone until tonight.
A single-season league stat would be enough to satisfy my curiosity, so once I've wrtten a quick program to load and sort the data by the Y coordinate, I should be able to get something rough together. If the sample size is small enough where there's year-to-year variance, hopefully, the rest of the data (3 more regular seasons) would be enough to eliminate that.
posted by suckerpunch at 8:41 AM on May 4, 2011
A single-season league stat would be enough to satisfy my curiosity, so once I've wrtten a quick program to load and sort the data by the Y coordinate, I should be able to get something rough together. If the sample size is small enough where there's year-to-year variance, hopefully, the rest of the data (3 more regular seasons) would be enough to eliminate that.
posted by suckerpunch at 8:41 AM on May 4, 2011
I don't know much about basketball, so I don't know what statistics they track, but have you checked basketball-reference?
posted by leahwrenn at 9:12 AM on May 4, 2011
posted by leahwrenn at 9:12 AM on May 4, 2011
Response by poster: Finally ran the numbers with the data from your link, milkrate. Everything appeared to be correct - spot-checking a few of the halfcourt shots my queries returned matched up with play-by-play listings from ESPN.
The result : for all shots past half-court, NBA players shoot around 2.5%. For a four-foot square around the center of the court, NBA players shot 9/139, or 6.47%.
Why did I want to know this? Because Oklahoma City has a halfcourt shot competition during halftime of their home games. OKC fans are currently 3 for 46 this year - 6.52%. HELL YEAH OKLAHOMA.
posted by suckerpunch at 5:37 PM on May 5, 2011
The result : for all shots past half-court, NBA players shoot around 2.5%. For a four-foot square around the center of the court, NBA players shot 9/139, or 6.47%.
Why did I want to know this? Because Oklahoma City has a halfcourt shot competition during halftime of their home games. OKC fans are currently 3 for 46 this year - 6.52%. HELL YEAH OKLAHOMA.
posted by suckerpunch at 5:37 PM on May 5, 2011
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posted by zombieApoc at 8:08 AM on May 4, 2011