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player and ball positioning #8

Open cpsievert opened 9 years ago

cpsievert commented 9 years ago

Mine this post for ideas -> http://savvastjortjoglou.com/nba-play-by-play-movements.html

skdeshpande91 commented 9 years ago

From a really cursory look, the data is indexed by the gameID and event number (which are readily available from, say, play-by-play). So obtaining the data in a systematic fashion is feasible. Judging from the corresponding videos, however, I think there'll be a big overlap between consecutive files:

http://stats.nba.com/cvp.html?GameID=0021400877&GameEventID=1 http://stats.nba.com/cvp.html?GameID=0021400877&GameEventID=2 http://stats.nba.com/cvp.html?GameID=0021400877&GameEventID=3

Haven't thought about it in a lot of detail, but one way to get rid of the repeated location data will be with the timestamp (and possibility duplicate rows in some data frame storing player locations).

abresler commented 9 years ago

Jsonlite or tidyjson works wonders with the secret NBA api

Alex Bresler abresler@asbcllc.com ​www.asbcllc.com​ 917-455-0239​ (cell)​ On Sep 1, 2015 4:16 PM, "skdeshpande91" notifications@github.com wrote:

From a really cursory look, the data is indexed by the gameID and event number (which are readily available from, say, play-by-play). So obtaining the data in a systematic fashion is feasible. Just by looking at the corresponding videos, however, I think there'll be a big overlap between consecutive files:

http://stats.nba.com/cvp.html?GameID=0021400877&GameEventID=1 http://stats.nba.com/cvp.html?GameID=0021400877&GameEventID=2

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