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I'm looking to scrape play-by-play data and I'm at a loss for how to track 5-man units between quarters. Substitutions are allowed between quarters, so how do you know who is on the floor at the start of each of the last three quarters? All of the sites I've looked at only seem to track substations ...

Statistically speaking, long 2s are the worst shot in basketball (see sources 1,2, and 3 below). I can't think of a better way for a defense to encourage long 2s than to allow them to go uncontested. Is that a bad idea? I read a study (source 4) that says that good defense on the shooter reduces his...

Over the past 10 years the Spurs have dominated the league in terms of payroll efficiency (salary-dollars per regular season win). In Baseball, the Oakland Athletics had Billy Beane -- who is the mastermind equivalent behind the Spurs?