🏀 Basketball Analytics Hub

An interactive R Shiny application for NBA Draft evaluation, rookie success prediction, player comparison, and front-office decision support.

🚀 Live Demo

👉 https://yfazp7-danny-thompson.shinyapps.io/basketball-analytics-hub/

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Dashboard Preview

🏠 Home Dashboard

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👤 Player Lookup

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⚖️ Player Comparison

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📋 Draft Rankings

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📊 Team Grades

Live Application

👉 Live App: (Paste your Shiny URL here)

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Features

📈 2026 NBA Draft Value Model

• Model rankings for the 2026 NBA Draft class
• Draft Value metric
• Success Score predictions
• Draft steals and reaches

🏀 Rookie Success Model

• Historical NBA rookie success prediction
• Probability of NBA success
• Predictive modeling built in R

👤 Player Lookup

• Search any player in the draft class
• View:
  • Success Score
  • Model Rank
  • Draft Value
  • College statistics
  • Physical profile

⚖️ Player Comparison

Compare two prospects side-by-side.

Includes:

• Model Preference
• Success Score
• Draft Value
• College production
• Head-to-head visual comparisons

📋 Draft Rankings

Interactive rankings with filters for:

• Team
• Success Score
• Draft Value

📊 Team Draft Grades

Evaluate each NBA team's draft based on:

• Average Success Score
• Best draft pick
• Total Draft Value
• Team selections

🔄 Trade Value (Coming Soon)

Future module for evaluating NBA trade value using production, age, contracts, and team context.

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Technologies

• R
• Shiny
• dplyr
• ggplot2
• DT
• readxl

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Repository Structure

Basketball Analytics Hub/
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├── app.R
├── global.R
├── server.R
├── ui.R
├── modules/
├── data/
├── www/
└── README.md

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Related Projects

🏀 NBA Rookie Success Model

https://github.com/DannyTData/predicting-nba-career-success

📈 2026 NBA Draft Value Model

https://github.com/DannyTData/2026-nba-draft-value-model

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Future Improvements

• Player photos
• Trade Value Model
• Salary analysis
• Draft simulator
• Free agency tools
• Team needs dashboard
• Interactive visualizations

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Author

Danny Thompson

Basketball Analytics | Predictive Modeling | Sports Data Science

Aspiring NBA/WNBA Basketball Operations & Analytics Professional