Above the Rim

An exploration of correlation between the size and performance of NBA players.

If you are a basketball fan, you must have came across with the following questions and concerns: What is the relationship between a player’s size and performance? Is the playing style and expertise of a typical player is determined by the height and weight? What is the ideal size of players in different positions? In order to find out the correlations, we conducted this explorative project to learn and visualize the trend of NBA players’ average height and weight, as well as their performance by using dataset from 1950 to 2018. The goal of the project is to find out how NBA players’ average height and weight changes overtime, and to see if there is any correlation between player’s size and performance. Ultimately, we try to find out the NBA player models for each of the five positions from Center to Point Guard.