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NBA General Manager Dashboard

Build a dashboard aimed at general managers of NBA teams to assist them with assembling their franchise's team and optimizing their teams performance given a team's salary cap.

Data

• nba_api
• Twitter API
• Web-scraping

Features

A collection of EDA features, that generate API calls and models that are pre-trained on the whole data set. All of that can be joined by additional, "nice-to-have" features that provide a more immersive user experience and provide a holistic overview over the current situation of a selected NBA organization.

EDA

• Player's statistics
• Player's contracts
• Development of salary cap
• Team's rosters
• Franchise information
• Season schedule
• Results of most recent games
• Comparison with median player on position: calculating performance values relative to other players / calculate player importance w.r.t games in previous season(s)

Model

• Clustering of player's to find substitutes for player's already on the roster, extension to recommendation engine?
• Assessing player's market value relative to other player's in the league
• Prediction of players future salary demands, extrapolation of salary cap based on these predictions
• Prediction of rookie's performance based on combine and college performance
• Prediction of season/game results based on addition of new player

Other

• Use selected teams colors
• Insert teams recent tweet's or recent tweet's of teams hashtag
• Analyzing sentiment of fan's tweets