GOAT Talk - Take That For Data

David Fizdale, the current head coach for the New York Knicks, was a rookie head coach for the Memphis Grizzlies the 2016-17 NBA season.  During the midst of a 1st round Playoff matchup with the San Antonio Spurs, his team got beat 96-82 in the 2nd game of their matchup.  He started the press conference off calmly.  Discussing his team's effort against the #2 seed in the Western Conference.  But, soon he would start to show his frustration with the officiating crew.  Noting how his star players weren't getting calls and how there was a discrepancy with the free throws.  "I'm not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to add up.", Fizdale proclaimed.  Eventually, his frustration came to fruition, and after discussing Gregg Popovich's coaching tenure and "...they're not going to rook us.", he gave us the phrase.......

And this is where the 3rd part of my Capstone Project lead me.  All of this seemingly bountiful data that I scraped and cleaned like a deer from Red Dead Redemption.  This was the time to evaluate what I had and see how I could use it.

First things first, recover from the previous cleanings and merge all of the csv's together into one giant dataframe.

Then I narrowed down some of the data gathered for the modeling.

There were 214 rows of data collected between 14 NBA players to start with.  I narrowed it down to those who played at least half of a 82-game season and that dropped our data from 214 to 202 rows.

Then I wanted only the PER scores that were above the league average of 15.  That took the data from 202 to 196.

From there, it was adjusting some of the percentage stats into decimal format (25% = .25).  After that, nothing left to do but some graphing and plotting to see what the data looks like amongst each other.