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Hi guys,

I am currently writing my master thesis and am having some trouble prepping my data set in way to make it useful. I am currently interested in calculating the speed of ball movement of each NBA team, and would like to do this based on the Sports VU data. Now I have been able to get this data from the internet, but have ran into two problems when trying to make the data useful. First of all I noticed that each "moment" specified in the dataset is not one play as we would see in the play by play data. Secondly I am having some trouble with determining which team has possession of the ball.

I have tried looking around on the internet for some tips on how to use the data but other from a post from Tanya Cashorali on tcbanalytics I haven't been able to find anything on how to use the data in R. I was hoping some of you could help me out as my deadline for my thesis is approaching quickly and this is preventing me from finishing it.

Any tips would be much appreciated!

There's an R blog network where I've seen occasional NBA posts. You could try digging around there. http://www.r-bloggers.com/

Those are certainly issues with the SportVU data. I haven't dealt with them directly, but I have followed Dr. Rajiv Shah's work with SportVU data. He has at times mentioned dealing with both of those issues.

His Twitter account is at https://twitter.com/rajcs4

His website is at http://www.rajivshah.com/

Some of his SportVU code is at https://github.com/rajshah4/NBA_SportVu

Thank you for your help guys. I have been able to figure a way out to solve atleast the problem for which team is in possession of the ball.