In sport, there has been a proliferation of data in the last decade. Not only are we looking at numbers more closely and more often than in the past, but the ways in which data is gathered have diversified and multiplied as well. As an NBA fan, the usage of advanced statistics has really opened up people’s eyes to facets of the game that they may not have known existed.
Thanks to data gathering systems, we are now able to quantify the effect that players have on a game based on the flow of the ball during the time that player is on the court.