Interactive mapping platforms bring all of a abrupt larn real pop tools for visualizing basketball game statistics.
In Apr the Los Angeles Times created a real impressive visualization of every shot made yesteryear Kobe Bryant inward his long career. Every Shot Kobe Bryant Ever Took uses Leaflet.js to introduce a shot map of Kobe Bryant's 30,699 career shots, both successful together with misses. This was speedily followed yesteryear Kudos' Golden State Warriors Map, which uses CartoDB's mapping platform to analyze every game played yesteryear the Golden State Warriors inward their tape breaking 2015-16 season.
Now Gregory Brunner has used Esri maps to practise a 3d shot map of Kevin Durant's 2015-16 season. Successful shots are shown (in blue) on pinnacle of a innovation of the basketball game courtroom inward Brunner's Courtside Geography. If you lot flip the map unopen to (use your correct mouse button) you lot tin give notice thought Durant's missed shots on the underside of the courtroom plan. The map includes a break of buttons which render hot links to views of the map from the sideline together with baseline.
Of class there's no demand to terminal at mapping private shots. If you lot role CartoDB's Torque library you lot tin give notice creating animated maps of whole plays. For example, NBA Movement is an animated map which plots a passage of play during the Clippers vs Rockets game from May 2015.
The map uses information from stats.nba.com. Savvas Tjortjoglou has written upward a overnice tutorial explaining how you lot tin give notice extract the information from play yesteryear play drive animations at stats.nba.com. Jorge Sanz used this tutorial to larn the information for the Clippers vs Rockets game inward lodge to practise this animated basketball game map.
