Saturday, March 17, 2012

From Downtown!

You might wonder what business a geography professor has diagramming basketball shots, but Kirk Goldsberry of Michigan State has done so, creating maps showing where players have the most success, colored like the heat signature maps you see done from infrared cameras. This website shows the overall map, with red-orange representing the places from which shots score the most points.

Obviously more shots fall when taken from closer to the basket, so that is a red "hot zone." But more points result from three-point shots, so it also is a hot zone.

My own map, of course, would be solid blue from end to end because I am an ice-cold shooter. Not in the good way.

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