Why is the data plotted on a full court instead of a half court? Isn't it completely arbitrary which half a point gets plotted on?! Also, plotted like this, we can't tell which basket was being shot for!!
Any chance you can then overlay success % of the shots? Or put another way, have the heatmap driving by point value (0, 2 or 3) instead of shot attempt. This would be cool in highlighting where most of the points (not attempts) are scored from.
Is the left/right (err...top/bottom in this view) asymmetry of shots outside the 3-pt line an artifact of not flipping the left/right positioning of the data relative to the basket? Seems that if there is a bias to one side or another, it would be mirrored on the other side of the court (for the dominant hand of the shooters?). In this graph, there seems to be a higher number of made shots on the “top” of the image on both sides of the court
![image showing Heat Map of 1,058,383 Basketball Shots from NCAA Games [OC]](ce47590d-e764-5449-8802-f9a61d07e23c.jpg)
kbfats on March 9th, 2018 at 16:07 UTC »
Why is the data plotted on a full court instead of a half court? Isn't it completely arbitrary which half a point gets plotted on?! Also, plotted like this, we can't tell which basket was being shot for!!
_mizraith_ on March 9th, 2018 at 16:52 UTC »
Any chance you can then overlay success % of the shots? Or put another way, have the heatmap driving by point value (0, 2 or 3) instead of shot attempt. This would be cool in highlighting where most of the points (not attempts) are scored from.
anothershittyUN on March 9th, 2018 at 17:46 UTC »
Is the left/right (err...top/bottom in this view) asymmetry of shots outside the 3-pt line an artifact of not flipping the left/right positioning of the data relative to the basket? Seems that if there is a bias to one side or another, it would be mirrored on the other side of the court (for the dominant hand of the shooters?). In this graph, there seems to be a higher number of made shots on the “top” of the image on both sides of the court