The motion chart gadget from Google is kind of a cool way to visualize statistics as they change during a season or year-to-year. This first came to my attention when Commodore created a thread using them 1 year back (here). I created a new gadget for some select team statistics for this season (its easy to do, and anybody can try it for themselves). This gadget shows a "last 5 games" average for the specified statistics for any team. So far, its through 12/8, but I can continue to update it. The data and gadget can be accessed here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc...1SjdrT3c4WGlsd3c&hl=en&authkey=CNa6oIkE#gid=3 There are three tabs. The first (and default view) is a motion bubble chart. The second tab is a motion bar chart. The third view is a customizable line chart. For first two tabs, you can click the play button on the lower left and adjust the playback speed. There are a few other options you can play around with. On the third tab, you can adjust the opacity of non-selected teams in 'Advanced'. And here are some screenshots: The statistics tracked at each date are based on prior 5 games: OFF_std: how much better offensive efficiency is compared to league average efficiency DEF_std: how much better defensive efficiency is compared to league average efficiency ORTG: offensive efficiency DRTG: defensive efficiency OVRL: point differential per 100 possessions PACE: possessions per 48 minutes of action EFG%: effective field goal% in ORB%: offensive rebounding rate FTR: free throw rate (FTM/FGA) TOR: turnover rate (% of possessions ending in turnover) ASTR: assist rate (% of made field goals that are assisted) EFG_opp: effective field goal% for opponent ORR_opp: offensive rebounding rate for opponent (equiv to 1-DRB%) FTR_opp: free throw rate for opponent TOR_opp: turnover rate for opponent ASTR_opp: assist rate for opponent I will continue to update this gadget and maybe create others over the course of this season.
OMG... y'all take this stuff too far... :grin: Gadgets? For... stats? OK, OK... those are good, but... what's the purpose?
HoopData's motion charts are for individual players, and it tracks the evolution of player stats from year to year. I'm tracking the evolution of team statistics game to game.
Purpose is to gauge how the Rockets are improving (or not improving) relative to other teams according to a variety of metrics.
Just as another example of what this gadget can show you, here's a point-differential plot for 4 teams which look to be in a race for the 8th seed in the West: Note that its a "last 5 games average" plot. The Rockets look to be close to par with Phoenix, and hopefully we pull ahead through the easy December schedule.
very nice, I wasn't able to keep up with the one I did last year Spoiler <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jbkSRLYSojo?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jbkSRLYSojo?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>
Hire this man Morey! JC Denton should become durvasa's intern... ...maybe me too cause it took me like 5 mins to "click the play button".
neat, though i agree with Juan. still, can draw some conclusions. Our pace seems to have slowed down considerably since the beginning of the year. we are now solidly in the middle of the pack as far as pace goes. And we're winning more. EDIT: Still looking at pace and pace vs. [y] type stuff. again, while these stats are great, there's so much data it's kind of hard to figure out what it means, and where there's any cause-correlation conclusions you can make. Pace seems to be the most obvious to me. Not sure what is driving what, but it seems clear that as our pace has gradually slowed, our offensive efficiency hasn't been hurt, but our defense and point differential have improved.
I would suggest using the third tab (the line chart) if you just want to focus on one stat. If you're interested in Offense+Defense counterparts (like OFF_std and DEF_std), then the motion bubble chart is good. If you interested in how the team ranks relative to other teams in a particular stat, and how that ranking fluctuates, the bar chart is good.
