This package offers a powerful solution for extracting NBA game data from stats.nba.com and fetching pace data from basketball-reference.com. With a focus on data visualization, it provides capabilities to create insightful visualizations for each game. The included calculation.js module features three distinct calculations for momentum analysis: ScoreNormalizedTime, PAPM, and MAMBA. Utilizing the d3.js library, the script.js file enables the creation of dynamic and interactive game and momentum visualizations, enhancing understanding and analysis of NBA game dynamics, and experiments.js calculates each momentum value for NBA games given the year(s) of the season start to see how predictive each metric is of which team wins.
- Node
- Web Browser
- (Optional) pnpm
- Navigate to current directory in terminal
cd path/to/nba-momentum-visualizer- Install dependencies
For npm
npm install(Optional) If you have pnpm installed, you can use it instead of npm
pnpm installStart the server by running the following command in the same directory as installation.
npm startNavigate to http://localhost:3000/ in your browser. API documentation is up at http:/localhost:3000/doc
Note: Nodemon will automatically refresh the node environment if you make any local changes.