Take A Deep Dive Into The Data Behind Our Research
The world of sports has come a long way since it's beginning. Players are learning to improve and refine their game and skills every day. Today, coaches and staff members are becoming more and more equipped with the latest technologies to help improve their team and organization. Sports analytics is changing the world of sports as we know it, pioneering a data-first mentality when assessing players and teams quality. This relates to not only helping players increase their physical and mental performance, but also with business and recruiting decisions as well.
By leveraging data that is already being collected or by going out and collecting the data themselves, sports analysts are utilizing the process of the scientific method alongside statistical modeling to give players/organizations a competitive advantage over others on and off the field. In our research, we wanted to explore the relationship between players’ salary and their team’s performance in the NBA. We wanted to see how allocation of salary cap correlates to the success of the team. We will discuss the background and supporting research from others, our assumptions for the research, our own hypothesis, and finally our approach to analyze the data and to create a model to predict overall NBA performance.
