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A basketball stats program created by a CS 5150 team during the Spring 2018 semester
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TmFTA #10

Open dbr96 opened 6 years ago

dbr96 commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/kmb266/cs5150-basketball-project/blob/37a68d206d91ba7208e61c851fe2e65c8e60493b/app/advanced_stat.py#L378

Does the set-up of 'return TmFTA = 0' affect this since there are 2 TmFTA in the formula? WhatI mean is that if TmFTA is 0, TmFGM can still be a number. Hope that make sense.

kmb266 commented 6 years ago

Because python (or anyone in the world as far as I know) cannot divide by 0, we have to protect against this by saying if a team does not shoot any free throws then the team scoring possession cannot be calculated -- does this seem right? it doesn't to me, but according to the formula thats what it is saying

dbr96 commented 6 years ago

No. If someone does not shoot free throws that doesn't mean they didn't score. Essentially, if TmFTA is 0, then only (TmFTM/TmFTA) should be 0. You can still equate the rest of the problem. it just becomes TmFGM +(1-(1-(0))^2)00.4 which becomes just TmFGM. I know this is strange and WAY unlikely but doesn't mean it is impossible.