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    This document analyzes Kobe Bryant's basketball shots using machine learning tools and techniques. It uses XGBoost and gradient boosting to analyze over 25,000 shots and predict whether shots will be made or missed based on features like location and defender distance. The analysis finds patterns in Kobe's made and missed shots that can help improve player training and understand opponents better. Visualizations of shot data are created using Python libraries like Pandas, Seaborn, and NumPy.

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    This document analyzes Kobe Bryant's basketball shots using machine learning tools and techniques. It uses XGBoost and gradient boosting to analyze over 25,000 shots and predict whether shots will be made or missed based on features like location and defender distance. The analysis finds patterns in Kobe's made and missed shots that can help improve player training and understand opponents better. Visualizations of shot data are created using Python libraries like Pandas, Seaborn, and NumPy.

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    EEC 289Q SPRING 2016 Zibran Chaus

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    This document analyzes Kobe Bryant's basketball shots using machine learning tools and techniques. It uses XGBoost and gradient boosting to analyze over 25,000 shots and predict whether shots will be made or missed based on features like location and defender distance. The analysis finds patterns in Kobe's made and missed shots that can help improve player training and understand opponents better. Visualizations of shot data are created using Python libraries like Pandas, Seaborn, and NumPy.

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    ANALYSIS OF KOBE

    BRYANTS
    BASKETBALL
    SHOTS
    EEC 289Q SPRING 2016
    ZIBRAN CHAUS

    WHY?
    Over half of NBA teams worth over 1 billion dollars
    Large investment
    Average Salary 4.3 million dollars
    Kobes salary as of 2015 23 million dollars

    Improved player training


    Predictions for future game
    Understanding your opponent
    Win more

    TOOLS
    Language of choice Python
    Xgboost
    Gradient Boosting (Gradient Descent + Boosting)
    Learning Technique for regression which makes prediction based on an ensemble of weaker prediction
    models

    Pandas
    Data manipulation and analysis

    Seaborn
    Visualization library based on matplotlib

    NumPy
    Scientific computing, great for N-dimensional array objects

    Kaggle
    Testing Environment

    METHODOLOGY
    XGBoost has been used many times previously to win Kaggle
    competition
    One of the fastest gradient boosting algorithms
    Can be multi-threaded

    30698 total entries, 5000 blanks -> 25698 training data, 5000
    testing data
    25 Categories

    METHODOLOGY
    Picking which features matter

    Gradient boosting parameters


    Max Depth, N_estimators, Learning Rate

    Cross-Validation and Fine tuning

    DATA ANALYSIS
    All Shots

    Made Shots

    Miss Shots

    DATA ANALYSIS

    CONCLUSION
    Kaggle results based on return log loss
    Kaggles Rank 1 Score : 0.57866
    My Best score : 0.60262 (rank 83)

    Machine Learning and Data Analysis in Python can be used to


    improve a players strengths and find out what weakness they may
    have.

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