NBA Dashboard

Our group created an interactive NBA data dashboard that compares team and player performance across two seasons – 2014-15 and 2024-25. The goal is to highlight how the game has evolved over the past decade in the regular season and in the playoffs, focusing on trends in scoring, shooting efficiency, and positional performance. By analyzing metrics such as points per game, field goal percentage, and three-point percentage, we examine how player and team attributes have changed over time and how they correlate with overall success on the court. Additionally, we investigate season-to-season differences to highlight shifts in playing style and league trends. Lastly, we identify league-wide averages and commonalities across players, offering actionable insights for team strategy and player development. Through this analysis, we aim to empower stakeholders with data-driven strategies to better understand performance trends in a competitive basketball landscape. Our dataset includes individual player statistics across multiple seasons, focusing on key performance indicators like scoring, shooting accuracy, and three-point efficiency. There are hundreds of entries with numerous attributes for each player.

The top five OKC were chosen based on minutes played. Field goal percentage shows how often a player makes a shot, demonstrating their scoring efficiency. Points per game shows a player’s consistent scoring output.

Comparing field goal percentage and points per game through two snapshots ten years apart.

It is very clear that the point guard (PG) position has shown the largest increase in points per game, whereas the field goal percentage remains relatively stagnant between the snapshots ten years apart. Accounting for general NBA points inflation, this demonstrates an increased reliability on point guards to provide a larger portion of the team scoring.

The scatter line plot displays Kevin Durant’s point per game averages each season throughout his career. He has consistently scored 25 points or more per game outside of his rookie season and his season where we was injured. The gap is in the 2019-2020 season, where he suffered from an achilles injury that had him in the injury reserve for the whole season. KD also had a high of 32 points per game, which was a major factor for his MVP award.

The chart displays the breakdown of Kevin Durant’s points between 2-pointers and 3-pointers. They have an inverse relationship as they are % based out of his total field goal percentage. He has had a pretty consistent shot selection throughout his career, but began his earlier seasons with much more 2-pointers attempted.