Overview

This data set contains data on team performance by season for the 2008-09 through 2011-12 seasons.

Details

This data set contains team-level data for four NBA seasons: 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11, and 2011-12. Variables such as total points scored for each team and total points scored against each team are given. The data were obtained from http://basketballvalue.com/downloads.php.

Data Description

Variable Description
Team Code for team name
Min Number of minutes played by the team
PossFor Number of possessions for team
PossOpp Number of possessions by opponent
PointsFor Total number of points scored by team
PointsOpp Total number of points scored by opponents
OffRtg Offensive rating
DefRtg Defensive rating
OverallRtg Overall rating
ORebFor Offensive rebounds by team
ORebOpp Offensive rebounds by opponents
DRebFor Defensive rebounds by team
DRebOpp Defensive rebounds by opponents
ORebRate Offensive rebound rate
DRebRate Defensive rebound rate
Season Season (e.g., 2010 = 2010-2011 season)
nda_data = read.table("data/NBA_teamstats.txt", header = TRUE)
head(nda_data)

Data Files

Objectives

We will consider modeling the number of points scored by the teams across all four years combined, and individually within each year. The goal is to find distributions that fits these data well, and to estimate the associated parameters.