Potter Sports Group: Predicting NCAA Players Chances of Making the NBA

Model:

How well can we predict the likelihood of a player making the NBA based on their college performance? Can we identify players who are not on draft boards who would succeed?

Results:

• PotterShiny directory: Contains the code for the shiny app that displays the results and projections of the model
• PotterProject.pdf: Presentation displaying the end results of the model
• PotterModel.R: Most of the scraping and data vizualization is contained in this file if interested

Resources:

• College Data - Sports Reference
• NBA Data - Basketball Reference