We love stats as much as the next man, and when stats and sports are combined to bring us an amazing report such as this, we wouldn't be following our weak journalistic code by denying you the same access. Kirk Goldsberry, associate Geography professor at Michigan State came up with this..
In the quest to better understand the "average" NBA shooter I have begun making composite shooting charts for each position in the league. My eventual goal is to establish a spatially informed baseline and to map every shooter in the league against an average shooter. These charts are not good for that task, but they're interesting nonetheless. Here are composite shooting charts for each of the 5 conventional basketball positions. I combined the shooting data for every player in positional groups. There are some bizarre trends including some fascinating asymmetries.
Every shot since 2006 visualized.
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