NBA: Data Reveals Who Makes The Real Difference

In the next blog of our Knoyd series, we are going to show one of the ways of measuring impact of NBA players on the game. Everyone knows that all-stars like LeBron James or Stephen Curry have tremendous impact and they show it in every game on the floor. However, very often role players need to step up and save the game. This analysis is dedicated especially to these players and how they can change the game by their performance. The cornerstone of this analysis is the basic correlation between players‘ impact and result of the game. The way, how impact of an individual player is computed, will be described later on.