Offensive Lineup Analysis in Basketball with Clustering Players Based on Shooting Style and Offensive Role

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13821v1
• Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 03:09:25 GMT
• Title: Offensive Lineup Analysis in Basketball with Clustering Players Based on Shooting Style and Offensive Role
• Authors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Keisuke Fujii,
• Abstract summary: The purpose of this study is to analyze more specifically the impact of playing style compatibility on scoring efficiency, focusing only on offense. This study employs two methods to capture the playing styles of players on offense: shooting style clustering using tracking data, and offensive role clustering based on annotated playtypes and advanced statistics. Based on the lineup information derived from these two clusterings, machine learning models Bayesian models that predict statistics representing scoring efficiency were trained and interpreted.
• Score: 0.9002260638342727
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In a basketball game, scoring efficiency holds significant importance due to the numerous offensive possessions per game. Enhancing scoring efficiency necessitates effective collaboration among players with diverse playing styles. In previous studies, basketball lineups have been analyzed, but their playing style compatibility has not been quantitatively examined. The purpose of this study is to analyze more specifically the impact of playing style compatibility on scoring efficiency, focusing only on offense. This study employs two methods to capture the playing styles of players on offense: shooting style clustering using tracking data, and offensive role clustering based on annotated playtypes and advanced statistics. For the former, interpretable hand-crafted shot features and Wasserstein distances between shooting style distributions were utilized. For the latter, soft clustering was applied to playtype data for the first time. Subsequently, based on the lineup information derived from these two clusterings, machine learning models Bayesian models that predict statistics representing scoring efficiency were trained and interpreted. These approaches provide insights into which combinations of five players tend to be effective and which combinations of two players tend to produce good effects.

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