NBAGrapher 1.0.0

Graphing NBA player and team stats using matplotlib

NBAGrapher

NBA Grapher is a python script that can make plots and graphs of NBA comparing various statistical measures of NBA players and teams

NBA Grapher uses sportsreference for scraping data from basketball-reference and creates plots using matplotlib

Currently, four types of graphs are supported.

• Player stat by season
• Player stat by game
• Team stat by season
• Team stat by game

Details on each of these functions can be found in the full documentation

A full list of avaiable statistics for each function can be found here.

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Installation

NBAGrapher can be installed from PyPi using PIP

$ pip install nbagrapher

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Examples

Season based

• VORP of two players throughout their career

nbagrapher.plot_player_season(['iversal01','bryanko01'],"value_over_replacement_player")

• PER of the last five MVPs over the last five years

nbagrapher.plot_player_season(['antetgi01','hardeja01','westbru01','curryst01','duranke01'],"player_efficiency_rating",start_year=2014,end_year=2019)

• Cumulative points of the five top points scorers over the last decade

nbagrapher.plot_player_season(['jamesle01','duranke01','hardeja01','westbru01','curryst01'],"points",start_year=2010,cum=True)

Game based

• Win Shares for January 2019

nbagrapher.plot_player_game(['embiijo01','antetgi01'],2019,"true_shooting_percentage",start_date=datetime.date(2019,1,1),end_date=datetime.date(2019,2,1))

License

MIT