NBA player points prediction

Overview

This repo provides all neccessary files to conduct a study on prediction of NBA players' points in season 2023 to 2024. To replicate this study, run the scripts in the 'scripts' file in order from 00 to 04.

File Structure

The repo is structured as:

• data/raw_data contains the raw data as obtained from basketball reference.
• data/analysis_data contains the cleaned dataset that was constructed.
• model contains fitted models.
• other contains details about LLM chat interactions, and sketches.
• paper contains datasheet, and the files used to generate the paper, including the Quarto document and reference bibliography file, as well as the PDF of the paper.
• scripts contains the R scripts used to simulate, download and clean data.

Statement on LLM usage

Aspects of the code were written with the help of ChatGPT and the entire chat history is available in inputs/llms/usage.txt.