Maps From The Courtside

Interactive mapping platforms bring all of a precipitous larn really pop tools for visualizing basketball game statistics.

In Apr the Los Angeles Times created a really impressive visualization of every shot made past times 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 chop-chop followed past times Kudos' Golden State Warriors Map, which uses CartoDB's mapping platform to analyze every game played past times the Golden State Warriors inward their tape breaking 2015-16 season.

Now Gregory Brunner has used Esri maps to exercise a 3d shot map of Kevin Durant's 2015-16 season. Successful shots are shown (in blue) on peak of a innovation of the basketball game courtroom inward Brunner's Courtside Geography. If yous flip the map only about (use your correct mouse button) yous tin dismiss persuasion Durant's missed shots on the underside of the courtroom plan. The map includes a pose out of buttons which render hot links to views of the map from the sideline together with baseline.

Of course of didactics there's no demand to destination at mapping private shots. If yous role CartoDB's Torque library yous tin dismiss 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 upwards a dainty tutorial explaining how yous tin dismiss extract the information from play past times play drive animations at stats.nba.com. Jorge Sanz used this tutorial to larn the information for the Clippers vs Rockets game inward gild to exercise this animated basketball game map.