https://github.com/bttmly/nba-shooting

NBA shot chart generator (WIP)
https://github.com/bttmly/nba-shooting

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NBA shot chart generator (WIP)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bttmly/nba-shooting
• Owner: bttmly
• Created: 2015-12-12T23:22:22.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-12-24T00:58:26.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-08T22:01:55.813Z (4 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 271 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# nba-shooting (WIP)

WORK IN PROGRESS. Mostly just imported the code from an [older attempt](https://github.com/nickb1080/nba-shooting-chart), and got it working again. 

Current status:

It generates a [Kirk Goldsberry-style](https://twitter.com/kirkgoldsberry/status/669221652580794368) shot chart for all shots league-wide for this season. By modifying `/scripts/update-shots.js` where noted you can pull data from past seasons. See the [nba API client](https://github.com/nickb1080/nba) for docs.

You can enter a player id to generate a shot chart for that player, relative to league shooting, although it's buggy right now and partially incomplete.

- clone the repo

- `cd nba-shooting`

- `npm install`

- `npm run update-shots`

- `npm start`

- point your browser to `http://localhost:3000`

The client code lives in `server/public`. The server will re-bundle the code (via browserify) each time it is requested.

Plans:

- Fix the odd behavior shown in the individual player maps (i.e. bin id mismatches between player shooting data and league shootin data)

- Add some UI (tooltips?) to provide data about each hexagonal bin.

- d3 is great, but would like to explore using canvas. For instance creating an un-binned chart of every one of a player's career shots might be unworkable, performance-wise.

- When pulling shots, go back as far as nba data provides, and add query strings to endpoints to filter by season

Suggestions and PRs welcome.