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Introducing Shooting Splits With Particular Lineups

Posted by sean on October 8, 2014

Earlier this week we introduced new advanced search options into our shooting splits tool.

In case you didn't know before, we have detailed shooting data for every player since 2000-01, and detailed splits are available by going to a player's page and hovering your mouse cursor over 'Shooting':

 

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Now, you can click on the [+] next to 'show advanced options' and you'll see two new advanced tools.

On the left, type in a player's name and click the search result to add it. In most cases, it will automatically populate as 'As teammate' or 'As opponent'. This will show shooting splits for whoever's page you are on, with the selected player both on and off the court.

In fact, you can even add several players and select custom combinations of 'On' and 'Off'.

Check out how LeBron fared versus Kawhi Leonard in 2013-14 by adding Leonard's name, then clicking on 'Go to Page'.

You can check out the numbers for just the Finals by clicking on the 'Playoffs' link in the results (likewise, you can add any split to your query the same way).

 

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Why did Ruben Patterson call himself "Kobe Stopper". It might be these 2001-2002 numbers when Kobe went 18-63 with Patterson on the court, then 46-96 with him off:

 
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ALSO! The tool on the right lets you compare the player whose page you are on versus any other player, or any other season. It works the same way, that is, begin typing the name in the form and then click a season from the select box that appears.

Then click 'Go to Page' and you'll get a side-by-side comparison of that player's shooting splits versus his own or another player's, in whichever season you selected:

 

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Related posts:

  1. PI+: Player Shooting Splits & Shot Charts
  2. Heat Maps Added to Shooting Splits
  3. PFR Player Splits
  4. Advanced Player Splits Now Available
  5. Player Splits

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3 Responses to “Introducing Shooting Splits With Particular Lineups”

  1. Michael Says: October 9th, 2014 at 11:58 pm

    2 questions:

    1. Are you able to use this feature for more than one season? For example, find LeBron's stat against Kawhi for his whole career rather than 2014?

    2. Will you also use this same concept for the plus/minus stats you have on this site? Example: LeBron's plus/minus with Dwyane Wade on and off the court or LeBron's plus/minus numbers when Kawhi is on the court?

  2. Michael Says: October 10th, 2014 at 12:25 am

    To add on to the first post, its seem like you can only search shooting splits with players on/off the court. How about stats with those players on/off the court? For example, points/rebounds/assists/TS% when LeBron is on the court with Kawhi and without Kawhi.

  3. David Corby Says: October 10th, 2014 at 4:04 pm

    @Michael -

    #1 Probably won't change in the near term. It's a lot of data to search through and it's organized by season. But searching more seasons would obviously be helpful so it's something for us to think about long-term.

    #2 No timeline for this but yes we'd like to extend this concept to the other play-by-play tools.

    For now the closest we come to getting those answers is with our lineups tool:
    http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/jamesle01/lineups/2014/

    And similarly with our lineup finder:
    http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/plus/lineup_finder.cgi

    There's no way to filter by unique teammate or opponent lineups, however.

    #3 Displaying other stats is feasible and something we'll get around to for sure.