Game stats are up

Reporting is now up for regular season NBA player stats.

• Daily Fantasy Point Recaps are available for FanDuel, Draftkings, and Yahoo DFS. You can choose to view players sorted by position (default), or in boxscore order. In addition to the standard html output, SCSV (semi-colon delimited values) formatting is available as an option.
• The NBA master file is also available. For details on the format, see rotoguru1.com/hoop/nba-dhd-2019-notes.txt.

As in past seasons, the master file and the SCSV version of the daily recaps will eventually be available only via premium subscription. But for at least the next four weeks, they will be provided for free.

Getting ready...

I'm in the process of resetting all of the various DHD/RotoGuru Hoops reporting for the 2018-19 NBA season

As of today, I have tentative working versions of the following:

• Sortable Stats, with DFS salary data for FanDuel, DraftKings, and Yahoo DFS. Note that I am only capturing salary data for the "Classic" format with the full daily slate of games. I will not be capturing salary data for single-game formats. Note that if you choose the trailing 7, 15, or 30 day periods, preseason games will be included. If you select "full season", preseason games will be excluded. (So if you want to see any data prior to the start of the season, don't select "full season".)
  
• Game-by-game player histories for the current season. From this page, you can also drill back to prior year histories.

As in the past several years, I will be producing the premium NBA master data file. This will hopefully be available by Wednesday, October 17. The file will be provided for free for at least the first four weeks of the NBA season. Subscription details will be announced around the beginning of November. (Remember that a separate subscription is required for each NBA season.)

Daily point recaps and the Stat Summarizer will be available by sometime on Wednesday as well. Stay tuned for further announcements as these come online.

As always, if you notice anything that looks to be incorrect, please send an email to davehall@rotoguru2.com.

COMING SOON—WWW.BASKETBALLVMI.COM

Special announcement from www.BasketballVMI.com:

As many of you already know from having read "Baseball Unraveled" by Clifton Neeley--Basketball is also affected by air resistance.

Since the NBA season is right around the corner, VMI is introducing "BasketballVMI." Within a few days of the opening of the regular NBA Season in 2018, we should be able to present the schedule ahead of game time and track the ADI and VMI for all the teams.

What will be the "Real World" focus for Basketball as it relates to NBA teams?

For Basketball, the issue is not the trajectory, but the distance of flight of the three point shot. Most everyone knows that golf balls, footballs, and other projectiles fly further in higher altitude locations than at sea level venues. Taking this concept a step further, we know that every venue between high altitudes and sea level, such as Oklahoma, Arizona, Atlanta, Texas, Minnesota and others are affected by air resistance differently. Can this be affecting 3 point shooting around the league when teams transition between those venues? How does good or bad 3 point shooting affect the other aspects of the game, such as rebounding and put-backs?

For the three point shot, the sensitive touch of the shooter is highly affected if what the shooter sees and muscle memory remembers as the amount of wrist and finger snap changes due to air resistance either holding the ball back a few inches, or freeing the ball to fly further than he/she is used to.

Since most, if not all, NBA and College basketball is played indoors, then temperature and humidity are not significant factors under normal playing conditions. However, "Actual" barometric pressure is a significant factor verified by Dr. Robert Adair, Professor Emeritus in Physics and author of The Physics of Baseball, Yale University.

We at Air Resistance Technologies will present for you a VMI based on a formula by Clifton Neeley which identifies when a team of players will be used to a shot flying 1 to 6 inches further or shorter than they are used to feeling and therefore affecting the overall shooting percentages, rebounding opportunities and put-back opportunities.

Stay tuned...

2017-18 Premium Data as of December 20

Starting December 20, 2017, some data will be available only via premium subscription. For details on which data reports and formats are impacted, please click HERE.

Master data file is up

The master data file for the 2017-18 NBA season is now up. After November (exact date TBD), this will become a premium subscription file. But during November, everyone can access it for free.

The general link is rotoguru1.com/cgi-bin/nba-dhd-2018.pl. That link also appears in the "Other Tools" menu above. Usage notes are in rotoguru1.com/hoop/nba-dhd-2018-notes.txt.

Comparable master files for prior seasons are available for a fee:
Game-by-game details for the 2016-17 regular and post-season is available for a one-time fee of $25. Similar data for the the 2015-16 regular and post-season is available for $20.

Waking up the sleeping beast

With the NBA season starting soon, the various DHD/RotoGuru NBA tools are coming back to life. Here are some of the reports that have been activated so far:

• Sortable stats: If you select the option for the last 30 days, you’ll get preseason stats. (Defaulting to "Full Season" gets you only regular season stats, which are all zero right now.) Season-opening DFS salaries are provided for FanDuel, DraftKings, and Yahoo. (Preseason salaries are not provided.) If a player salary has not yet been listed at a DFS site, then that player will be shown with a position of X and a salary of $0. If you click on any linked player name, you’ll get some preseason game details.
• Daily fantasy points: Since I’m not tracking preseason salary data (if any even exists), all players show up as unlisted and unsalaried. But you can at least see some of the statistical parameters. And if you elect to sort by game, you’ll get results organized more-or-less in boxscore order.

The master file for the coming season is not yet available, and will not include preseason data. That file will be created once the regular season begins, and will be free for the first month or so.

Master files for prior seasons are still available for a fee:
Game-by-game details for the 2016-17 regular and post-season is available for a one-time fee of $25. Similar data for the the 2015-16 regular and post-season is available for $20.

If you notice any apparent glitches, please let me know (davehall@rotoguru2.com). In particular, preseason data is tricky in that some non-NBA teams are involved, so that does create some data anomalies that will not be present during the regular season. Nevertheless, I hope to have most of the relevant updated and available.

Data at a premium

Beginning February 1, some of the text versions of various reports will become premium-only, and subject to a subscription fee.

Premium data files collectively covered by a single season subscription include:
- The master data file ... (file legend and notes on usage)
- Daily point recaps (text version only, HTML version remains free)
- NBA Player Stats Summarizer

Accessing these 2016-17 NBA premium data files after the end of January requires a one-time $25 subscription.

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