NBA Shot Charts (Inspired by FlightReacts)

This is my kind of project. I'll get this done by June. All jokes aside, this is a my attempt to create a shot chart, hexmap, and heatmap. All complete functions are contained in the jupyter notebook.

Here's a link to the youtube tutorial: https://youtu.be/a3u-3gEYvxM

Getting Started

First, clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/hkair/nba-shotcharts.git

Prerequisites

cd .. into repository

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get a development env running

1. Activate the environment

source env/bin/activate

2. Install dependencies.

pip install requirements.txt 

3. Run nba_shotcharts.py

python nba_shotcharts.py "Michael Jordan" "1997-98"

Acknowledgments

• https://github.com/savvastj for the draw_court function.
• https://github.com/swar for the nba_api.
• Inspired by FlightsReact, Youtube's best Basketball Player