Advanced player stats

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Advanced Player Stats

Clean advanced data https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2021_advanced.html

Motivation

• use stats like WS and VORP in player rankings
  • preliminary idea: PTS + REB + AST + 2BLK + 2STL + WS
  • values WS which is a good indicator of player skill, but also rewards raw stats.

Testing

• same number of rows in player per game stats and advanced stats
• columns are correct

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Other ranking ideas:

• adding some multiple of WS, VORP, BPM (Box +/-)
• dividing by ln(MP)

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Another idea:

Take the z score of stats.

zWS + zVORP + zBPM + 2 * z(season quality) season quality = PTS + TRB + AST + 2STL + 2BLK