Undergraduate Thesis - Topological Data Analysis
Authors: Benjamin Louis Ang, Alexander Pino Jr., Dane Lauren Rosario Full Manuscript Click here to read the paper in full. Abstract Basketball is one of the most popular team sports, whose many competitive, well-organized and well-recorded leagues provide rich sources of data frequently used to analyze tactics, strategy, player performance and team composition. A consequence of basketball’s team dynamics, comprising five active players per team on the court who may be replaced by substitute players on many occasions per game, is the formation of archetypes; players are categorized into positions based on roles they play, such as point-scoring, rebounding or defense. However, the evolution of game strategy has meant that the three traditional positions, namely—guard, forward, and center, are no longer sufficient to completely describe roles of players within the team. ...