Tag: basketball

Let’s analyze 32 years of basketball tournament data!

Here in the US, it’s the nationwide men’s college basketball tournament season! Therefore let’s use some data from the previous years’ tournaments to sharpen our analytics & visualization skills… But before we get started, I must mention (brag?) that my alma mater, NC State University, won this tournament in 1983. […]

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How to graph NBA data with SAS

People have always been fascinated by sports statistics, and with the recent popularity of fantasy sports there is an increased demand for custom analyses of the sports data. With those folks in mind, I have created a simple example that SAS programmers can use as a starting point for analyzing NBA […]

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I’m a data guy, not a basketball fan!

I get several requests and recommendations for analyzing sports data. I’m not a big sports fan … but when did I ever let that stop me! When I find interesting data, I like to graph it! Before we get into the nitty-gritty data analysis, here is a picture of my friend Jennifer’s daughter […]

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