A follow up inspired by u/neilson241's post on r/nba (and crossposted here). This post includes the frequency of every score that has occurred in the NBA and notes scores that are reasonably probable but haven't yet occurred and unlikely results that nevertheless happened.
Here is a report about the 19-18 game in 1950. The weaker team decided to delay the game as much as possible - and won with that strategy. The 24 second clock was introduced four years later.
There's that one game sitting at 120-something with a 60-something margin of victory, that is the highest ratio of wining to losing score in NBA history. The question is whether that ratio is greater than 2.
![image showing The frequency of every final score that has occurred in the NBA [OC]](353d910e-b1f1-5f3b-bfef-b28cdfc16419.jpg)
evo_genom on November 5th, 2017 at 05:21 UTC »
A follow up inspired by u/neilson241's post on r/nba (and crossposted here). This post includes the frequency of every score that has occurred in the NBA and notes scores that are reasonably probable but haven't yet occurred and unlikely results that nevertheless happened.
Source: basketball-reference.
Tools: R, including rvest, ggplot, ggrepel and viridis
Code and data: as csv and Rmarkdown
mfb- on November 5th, 2017 at 05:46 UTC »
Here is a report about the 19-18 game in 1950. The weaker team decided to delay the game as much as possible - and won with that strategy. The 24 second clock was introduced four years later.
And here is the opposite end - 186 to 184 in 1983.
The Detroit Pistons played in both games.
spockspeare on November 5th, 2017 at 06:26 UTC »
There's that one game sitting at 120-something with a 60-something margin of victory, that is the highest ratio of wining to losing score in NBA history. The question is whether that ratio is greater than 2.