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Published on: January 19, 2019

Basketball teams as strategic networks.

Jennifer H Fewell1, Dieter Armbruster, John Ingraham

  • 1School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA. j.fewell@asu.edu

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Network analysis of NBA games reveals team offensive strategies. Clustering and network entropy were most associated with team advancement in the 2010 playoffs, showcasing the utility of network approaches.

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Published on: January 19, 2019

Area of Science:

  • Sports analytics
  • Network science
  • Quantitative analysis of team dynamics

Background:

  • Basketball team dynamics and offensive strategies are complex.
  • Quantifying team strategy and its relation to success is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze NBA playoff games as networks to capture team dynamics and offensive strategies.
  • To determine if network properties can differentiate team offensive strategies and predict success.

Main Methods:

  • Modeled NBA 2010 playoff games as networks, with players as nodes and ball movements as links.
  • Analyzed network properties including degree centrality, clustering, entropy, and flow centrality.
  • Quantified offensive strategies based on ball movement patterns (uphill/downhill flux) and unpredictability (entropy).

Main Results:

  • Basketball networks generally show centralized ball distribution with the point guard as a key node.
  • Individual teams exhibited variations in player involvement and ball distribution, reflected in clustering and degree centrality.
  • Clustering (player connectedness) and network entropy (ball movement unpredictability) showed the strongest association with team advancement.

Conclusions:

  • Network analysis provides a quantitative method to assess team offensive strategies in basketball.
  • Specific network metrics like clustering and entropy can offer insights into team performance and advancement.
  • Basketball networks serve as a rich dataset for exploring the interplay between network structure, team dynamics, and effectiveness.