College Basketball Team Performance Dataset

The College Basketball Team Performance Dataset provides a detailed breakdown of team performance during the 2023 college basketball season. It includes advanced metrics that evaluate offensive and defensive efficiency, shooting percentages, rebounding statistics, and other key indicators of team success.

Dataset Breakdown

• TEAM: The name of the team.
• CONF: The conference the team belongs to.
• G: Number of games played.
• W: Number of games won.
• ADJOE: Adjusted Offensive Efficiency (points per 100 possessions).
• ADJDE: Adjusted Defensive Efficiency (points allowed per 100 possessions).
• EFG%: Effective Field Goal Percentage (adjusted for 3-point shots).
• 3P%: Three-point shooting percentage.
• 2P%: Two-point shooting percentage.
• ORB: Offensive Rebound Percentage.
• DRB: Defensive Rebound Percentage.
• FTR: Free Throw Rate (free throws made per field goal attempt).
• WAB: Wins Above Bubble (a measure of performance relative to tournament qualification).
• SEED: The team's tournament seed.

Link to the original source: College Basketball Dataset on Kaggle

Key Features

1. Compare Conferences

• Purpose: Analyze and compare performance across conferences.
• Interaction:
  • Alt+Click on conference rectangles in the visualization to select up to two conferences for comparison.
  • A detailed overlay displays conference-level statistics, including average metrics and aggregate team performances.
• Visualization: Provides a high-level summary of conference performance metrics and tournament representation.

2. Compare Teams

• Purpose: Compare individual teams head-to-head across key metrics.
• Interaction:
  • Alt+Click on team rectangles within the conference treemaps to select two teams for comparison.
  • A detailed overlay shows:
    • Team names, conferences, and seeds.
    • A radar chart comparing key metrics: ADJOE, ADJDE, EFG%, WAB, and BARTHAG.
    • Metrics normalized relative to all teams, highlighting relative strengths.
• Visualization: Radar charts highlight performance differences and strengths between selected teams.

3. Interactive Treemap

• Purpose: Visualize and navigate the dataset hierarchically.
• Interaction:
  • Teams are grouped by their conferences into rectangles.
  • Team performance determines rectangle size, offering an overview of relative strength.

Tasks for Visualizations

1. Compare Seeds by Conference

   • Purpose: Explore the distribution of tournament seeds across conferences to identify stronger representation.
   • Visualization: A box plot comparing SEED across conferences (CONF).

2. Win-Loss Comparison by Conference

   • Purpose: Compare win-loss records by conference to evaluate performance.
   • Visualization: A bar chart showing average win percentage for each conference.

3. Distribution of Three-Point Shooting Percentages (3P%)

   • Purpose: Visualize the frequency of 3-point shooting percentages across teams.
   • Visualization: A histogram of 3P% values.

4. Effective Field Goal Percentage (EFG%) vs Team Success (WAB)

   • Purpose: Analyze how effective field goal percentage correlates with team success (Wins Above Bubble).
   • Visualization: A scatter plot with EFG% and WAB, where point size represents wins (W).

5. Compare Adjusted Offensive and Defensive Efficiency (ADJOE vs ADJDE)

   • Purpose: Explore the relationship between a team’s offensive and defensive efficiency.
   • Visualization: A scatter plot with ADJOE and ADJDE, using conference color and point size for wins (W).

How to Use

1. Run the Visualization:

   • Load the dataset and initialize the visualizations.
   • Use the treemap for hierarchical navigation and performance overview.

2. Select Items:

   • Alt+Click to select conferences or teams.
   • Utilize the "Compare Conferences" or "Compare Teams" buttons to generate overlays.

3. Analyze Outputs:

   • Review overlays and visualizations to gain insights into team or conference performance.