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		raverbashing on July 31, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to create NBA shot charts in Python I wonder how does NBA generates these data (X, Y position and shot attempts), if it's manually input from video or something smarter

mjn on July 31, 2015 [–]

It's automatically extracted from video, using six cameras and a commercial system called SportVU: http://stats.nba.com/tracking/

TheAlchemist on July 31, 2015 | [–]

There is a nice TED talk also on the topic: http://www.ted.com/talks/rajiv_maheswaran_the_math_behind_ba...

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