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Duncan Robinson's career as Michigan Wolverine

This is a part of sports analytics application series: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) of Duncan Robinson's playing career for the University of Michigan Wolverine Men's Basketball team. Specifically, the analysis observes three-point attempts and scores, observing 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18 seasons.

Chart: Three-point shot attempts - all NCAA plays from 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18 seasons

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Michigan Wolverine during the period heavily depended its scoring on three-point field goals; the concerted efforts turned verschlimmbessern in challenged games, even during the successful seasons. Among their shooters, Duncan Robinson became one of the most efficient three-point shooter in NBA as an undrafted rookie with Miami Heat. The exercises below evaluate his three-point shooting performance at Michigan - an evidence translated into his future success.

NCAA basketball data

NCAA Basketball's play-by-play data during Duncan Robinson's career at University of Michigan is pulled from NCAA's historical play-by-play statistics from Google's BigQuery. All reference statistics used here comes from the dataset. The data contains location coordinate of the basketball court, which allows us to identify where each play happened (i.e. location of the shots attempted and made/missed). For Theatrum Chemicum, all shot locations are adjusted so that data are symmetrically represented in half court as shown below.

Chart: Three-point shot attempts - all NCAA plays from 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18 seasons - half-court adjusted

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Statistics - Three-point field goals: 2015 to 2018 seasons

Duncan Robinson - University of Michigan Wolverine

Games Three-point scores Three-point attempts Percent
Conference - regular season 193 515 37.4%
Conference - tournament 18 53 34.0%
March Madness 18 55 32.7%

University of Michigan Wolverine

Games Three-point scores Three-point attempts Percent
Conference - regular season 848 2,931 28.9%
Conference - tournament 88 334 26.3%
March Madness 90 352 25.6%

NCAA

Games Three-point scores Three-point attempts Percent
Conference - regular season 85,984 322,005 26.7%
Conference - tournament 12,084 45,393 26.6%
March Madness 4,911 18,623 26.4%

Shot locations and comparisons: 2015 to 2018 seasons

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Three-point attempt Three-point made

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Three-point attempt Three-point made