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Short Course On

Basketball Data Science

 

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Location: Virtual

7-9 May 2025

Course Lecturers

  • Marica Manisera (University of Brescia)

  • Paola Zuccolotto (University of Brescia)

  • Christos Marmarinos 

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Course Lecturers 

Christos Marmarinos (AUEB Sports Analytics, Sacramento Kings) ()

  • Basketball performance indexes and metrics for player evaluation. 

  • Epilogue: Closing comment on the course content and material

       and their practical application (from the manager's perspective)

  • During the course, Dr Marmarinos will give the perspective from

        the manager's perspective 

Marica Manisera and Paola Zuccolotto (University of Brescia)

  • Data science in basketball

  • Basketball data

  • Introduction to the R package BasketballAnalyzeR

  • Discovering Patterns in data

  • Finding groups in data

Program: TBA

Bibliography

  • Oliver D. (2003). Basketball on paper:  Rules and Tools for Performance. Potomac Books; 1st edition 

  • Zuccolotto P. and Manisera M. (2020). Basketball Data Science with applications in R. Chapman and Hall. 

  • Marco Sandri, Paola Zuccolotto, Marica Manisera (2020), BasketballAnalyzeR: Analysis and Visualization of Basketball Data. R package version 0.5.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BasketballAnalyzeR

  • Marco Sandri, The R package BasketballAnalyzeR, in: Zuccolotto P. and Manisera M., Basketball Data Science, 2020,  Chapter 6.

  • Paola Zuccolotto, Marica Manisera, Marco Sandri (2021), Alley‐oop! Basketball analytics in R, Significance, 26-31 https://doi.org/10.1111/1740-9713.01507

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All participants must bring their own laptops fully charged with R and  the R package BasketballAnalyzeR already installed. 

How to install it: https://bdsports.unibs.it/basketballanalyzer/
For any problem, please write to basketball.analyzer.help@gmail.com

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All course participants will receive a certificate of attendance if they attend in both four-hour sessions. 

Contact

groupsportsanalytics@gmail.com

Basketball Course Program (in pdf)
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