NBA Three-Point Efficiency

In Lecture 3 we saw that three-point shot rates have been increasing over time by creating visualizations of the distributions for each season.

Now, create the same visuals but use TPP as the continuous variable of interest. As players are attempting more three-pointers than ever before, are they also making them more?

Explain the meaning of these plots.

Other Data Sources

As you start to brainstorm ideas for your projects, consider some of the R packages that provide interesting datasets from various sports and additional functions for working with that data. For more information, see the Data Sources Lecture.