Background Information

Breaking down Stephen Curry’s stats can be very extensive,

so this is only a snapshot into his numbers. Chart 1

shows Stephen Curry’s yearly 3-point percentage compared

to the league’s average. We can see that he is a far

better shooter then average. Chart 2 shows a distribution

for Curry’s 3-point percentage. A 95% confidence interval

is 40.45% to 46% and a 66% confidence interval between

41.82% and 44.62%. The mean is 43.2. Data was taken from

the following and cleaned into an excel file with only

the needed information.

https://www.landofbasketball.com/results_by_team/2021_2022_warriors.htm

(keep track of games played this season)

https://www.espn.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/3975/stephen-curry

(individual season stats)

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/curryst01.html

(more in depth individual season stats)

Questions:

1. How many 3-pointers will Stephen Curry score this season?

2. How many 3-pointers will Stephen Curry score per game this season?

3. Is Curry having a good season?

Column

Row

Row

[1] 301.0702

    2.5%    97.5% 
40.40260 45.95944 

     16%      84% 
41.78598 44.60775