APBRmetrics

I use the PBP, Plus-Minus (pictorial variant) and box score pages from BBR to get a virtually perfect dataset. It's an incredible PITA to get very good accuracy. Unless you know or are learning some bayesian modelling techniques it will be a very unrewarding exercise. The box-score isn't solved yet...

First of all, use substitutions and then track from those substitutions each way. If a player never was substituted for in a quarter, check the PBP for a player appearing there that isn't already tracked. And finally, if a player both played the entire quarter and never showed up in the PbP for tha...

Hi all First time posting here! I've been writing code to scrape and organize NBA PBP data and have a problem that I'm not sure how to solve. How do I determine the 10 players on the court through the course of the game? I can get the starting lineup from the boxscore, but it's difficult to determin...