Abstract

This is the second part of a research diptych devoted to improving basketball data management in Spain. The Spanish ACB (Association of Basketball Clubs, acronym in Spanish) is the top European national competition. It attracts most of the best foreign players outside the NBA (National Basketball Association, in North America) and also accelerates the development of Spanish players who ultimately contribute to the success of the Spanish national team. However, this sporting excellence is not reciprocated by an advanced treatment of the data generated by teams and players, the so-called statistics. On the contrary, their use is still very rudimentary. An earlier article published in this journal in 2020 introduced the first open web application for interactive visualization of the box score data from three European competitions, including the ACB. Box score data refer to the data provided once the game is finished. Following the same inspiration, this new research aims to present the work carried out with more advanced data, namely, play-by-play data, which are provided as the game runs. This type of data allow us to gain greater insight into basketball performance, providing information that cannot be revealed with box score data. A new dashboard is developed to analyze play-by-play data from a number of different and novel perspectives. Furthermore, a comprehensive data platform encompassing the visualization of the ACB box score and play-by-play data is presented.

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