Modeling Player and Team Performance in Basketball

In recent years, analytics has started to revolutionize the game of basketball: Quantitative analyses inform team strategy; management player health and fitness; how teams draft, sign, trade players. this review, we focus on methods for quantifying characterizing basketball gameplay. At level, discuss strategy performance, while at take a deep look into myriad tools evaluation. This includes metrics overall value, defensive ability, shot modeling, understanding performance over multiple seasons via production curves. We conclude with discussion future and, in particular, highlight need causal inference sports.