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

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

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

Duncan Robinson

Three-point attempt	Three-point made

NCAA

Three-point attempt	Three-point made