Rumo ao estrelato: uma análise com estatísticas de jogadores recém ingressados na NBA.

Abstract

Basketball is a sport that generates a lot of data and statistics during the game and even throughout the life of a high-level player. Each year, countless young players are hired by big teams under the promise of being the next star of the franchise. With the availability of this data on the Internet, the interest in knowing more about how a player's numbers can tell and predict his success on the court arose. In this context, this work intends to create an interactive website, using data from the American basketball league (NBA), to create comparisons between the numbers of promising youngsters, in their first two years in the league, and the initiation years of today's big stars. These comparisons will be based on the main statistics for each role on the court, namely: average points per game, assists, rebounds, percentage of shots converted. From these comparisons, we will be able to analyze how similar the profile of each novice player is with that of big stars such as Lebron James and Kevin Durant.