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MORE BY TODD WHITEHEAD
Using hand-tracked player locations to examine how NBA teams balance when to crash the glass and when to get back in transition defense.
Regression to the mean has the potential to fool everyone, even NBA coaches building systems of positive and negative reinforcement.
Shot-selection is like parking a car on a crowded street -- take what's there or look for a better spot? Who is solving this "optimal stopping problem"?
Here is a new approach to using measures of role, skill and quality to optimize fit and player combinations in NBA lineups.
What do the NBA's trade deadline deals tell us about the recent trends of bigger ball-handlers and smaller rim-protectors?
Analyzing a new cache of NBA rebound tracking data can help identify optimal strategies for shot selection and positioning rebounders.
Newly available data on NBA player passing tendencies can help us visualize the structure of an offense in a new and deeper way.
Introducing triple-threat charts, which visualize a team's propensity for dribbling, shooting and passing from different locations.
Building prediction models to estimate how much productivity injuries could cost Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant over the life of their new contracts.
Another reworking of Todd Whitehead's hierarchical player clustering looks at how we can define an offensive role and how it can change over time.