ADS Project 5:

:basketball: :basketball: :basketball: Who will be the 2017 Finals :trophy: Champion :basketball: :basketball: :basketball:

Term: Spring 2017

• Team 1 :bulb: The A Team
• Projec title: :trophy: Who will win the 2017 Finals Championship :trophy:
• Team members
  • :octocat: Qingyuan Zhang (presenter)
  • :girl: Jihan Wei
  • :cherry_blossom: Ruxue Peng
  • :princess: Zixuan Guan
  • :sunflower: Yue Jin
• Project summary:

NBA 2015-2016 season was unforgettable. The Golden State Warriors 73-9 made history. For the playoffs, OKC ended their journey even though they got 3-0 over GSW at first. Following that, the same situation happened to GSW: at the finals, GSW beat CLE by 3-0, but they dramatically lost the following 4 games.

This is why NBA is so enchanting.

Then why this project? We were eager to see how computer, a machine without subjective opinions about NBA and the teams, predicts the result of the game, using purely on data given. It turns out to be surprisingly good!

• We published a ShinyApp to give a more interactive way for data visualization:

:tada: Take a look at our prediction: