FInding & Creation of Datasets Regarding Team Substitution

[ahmadmunim]

Task: Find sources of team data and logs with regards to team substitution and whether the result of said substitution was a success or failure.

My plan: The domain I plan on selecting for this task is basketball or hockey games I will check out public apis, public datasets, research papers, and game logs for relevent data

[ahmadmunim]

@hosseinfani Here is what I've found that we can potentially use:

Created a website to help visualize NBA players' rotation patterns for the current season (2023-24)

• Website that visualizes player rotations in basketball games. It shows when players are playing and not playing at a particular time of the game. The grey bar indicates the player is playing and just a line indicates the player is not playing. At the bottom, you'll see the time of the game. It also shows the scoring margin (the green line) throughout the game to show which players were playing during runs and momentum swings. Good or bad. However, this doesn’t support lots of games (around 30-40 per team). The developer of this platform used an open source NBA API for getting the data that was used to make this visualization. I will look into the open source NBA API I linked earlier.

NBA Games Box Scores and Play-by-play

• Offers users box scores and play by play logs of every game that has been played. This also shows all the substitutions that have occurred in the game as well as score updates and who scored them. It also shows which players did bad things in the game such as turnovers and committing fouls. May need to use a web scraper.

Is this a good start? Are there other things I need to search? Let me know what you think.

[hosseinfani]

Hi @ahmadmunim These are very interesting. I think this is what we want. We could say that from t1 to t2, a set of players have changed, and the score went up (success), or down (fail).

The only concern I have is that, it is not like soccer that when a player is substituted, the player won't get back to the field (a complete substitution). Here in basketball, a player can come and go multiple times, right? a temporary substitution?