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Just fixed it. There was a rogue comma in this morning's upload.

Whoops. Corrected.

The line-ups were no peach. It's essentially done in two phases: the first phase constructs an initial 5-player line-up based on the player associated with each event (if there is one). The second phase uses the substitution events to swap players in and out of that line-up. The whole process resets...

For the hobbyists out there... This season I'll be posting structured play-by-play data from every regular and post season NBA game at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/eventflow/NBA/nbaData.shtml The datasets are scraped from ESPN.com. I started generating them in order to test the software that my resea...

haha - i KNEW you were going to say that! i'll take a look at that tomorrow. it actually might be pretty simple. i'll have to strip down some of the attributes so that memory won't be an issue, but i actually think it'll be a good scalability challenge. drop me an e-mail, and i'll see what i can do ...

hey all - sorry for the delayed response - i was out of town for the weekend. wiLQ - the visualization we use definitely takes some time to get used to. however, once you do get used to it, it is extremely effective for helping users notice patterns and isolate subgroups. some of our current users c...

Thanks everyone, for your responses. This has all been incredibly helpful! AcrossTheCourt - I did a little experiment to look at how much of the Pacers' offense stems from offensive rebounds. I posted it here if you want to take a look: https://vimeo.com/67086795 I'll take a gander at the other poin...

Hey All, We're trying to get some expert feedback on the potential of using event sequence visualization techniques to analyze play-by-play stats. Basically, I've taken a software tool that was designed to analyze medical datasets, and rewired it to do the same analytics on play-by-play stats. This ...