Quick spoiler: it's about basketball, not photography.
For non Americans, non sports fans that actually helps.
Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
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Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#62It's amazing that there's a noticeably higher hit rate on a very precise line right down the middle and a relative shot gap 10 degrees on either side before reaching his "sweet zone". Anyone know why being only a few degrees away from center makes it harder to score?
There's no way that is indicative of anything other than issues with measurement
Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#63Of the 30,699 shots, he missed 16,966 and made 13,731.
At the smallest level of performance it is nice to see that you can fail more often than you succeed and still be very successful over all.
Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#64Quick spoiler: it's about basketball, not photography.
For the downvoters: submission title didn't specify so I genuinely expected photography. Seems like valid clarification to me!
Serious culture-calibration question(assuming you're not trolling): where are you from?
At least in America, "Kobe Bryant is a famous basketball player" is one of those facts that everyone (for relatively large values of everyone) knows.
Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#65How do you like colors of this chart? I cannot recognize colors of shots behind 3 point line. Looks like all are 'missed' for my eyes.
The colors are bad for this visualization, but were chosen because the Los Angeles Lakers wear those colors, and Bryant spent his entire career with the team.
Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#66Looks like they used Leaflet, a Javascript mapping library, for the visualization, so you end up with funny stuff like this in the source: var courtBounds = [[33.1593, -118.0198], [34.2353, -118.5198]];
> countQuery.execute("SELECT COUNT(cartodb_id) AS feature_count FROM kobe_all_shots_geocoded_final_merge"...
I sure hope they have permissions set up on that database..
Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the downvoters: submission title didn't specify so I genuinely expected photography. Seems like valid clarification to me!
Serious culture-calibration question(assuming you're not trolling): where are you from? At least in America, "Kobe Bryant is a famous basketball player" is one of those facts that everyone (for relatively large values of everyone) knows.
To illustrate how well known he is outside of the US (specifically in Japan), a rather humorous video[0] that I saw on reddit a couple weeks ago:
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2JhvkzgVGc&feature=youtu.be...
Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the downvoters: submission title didn't specify so I genuinely expected photography. Seems like valid clarification to me!
Serious culture-calibration question(assuming you're not trolling): where are you from? At least in America, "Kobe Bryant is a famous basketball player" is one of those facts that everyone (for relatively large values of everyone) knows.
Europe -- mostly Germany and Finland. The only basketball players I know are Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#69Of the 30,699 shots, he missed 16,966 and made 13,731. At the smallest level of performance it is nice to see that you can fail more often than you succeed and still be very successful over all.
shot percentage is a pretty arbitrary stat. a .350 batting average is also very good. a .900 hockey goalsave percentage is abysmal. to keep with the sports metaphor, you can always move your goalposts.
Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#70It's amazing that there's a noticeably higher hit rate on a very precise line right down the middle and a relative shot gap 10 degrees on either side before reaching his "sweet zone". Anyone know why being only a few degrees away from center makes it harder to score?
partly, it's that totally open shots (where there wasn't a defender in the area) will tend to be charted as coming from dead-center. So if Kobe gets a steal and has a clear path to the basket, or a defender gets out of position, he's going to get an easy shot which is marked as being taken from the center unless it's obviously taken from waaaaay off to the side.
Relatedly, shots that are marked as being taken from slightly to the side are more likely to be contested, often by a much bigger defender.