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I uploaded a chart to Twitter this morning. It contained all the 2014-15 season ticket prices for the 18 Beko BBL teams. Some teams offer family packages, all of them seats for handicapped people, some teams have prices for children, others special prices for courtside view, and so on. Since something all teams have in common is a regular price and a reduced price for tickets, it seemed appropriate to me to compare these two and leave all the other parameters out of the equation.

So, what I did is I went to all the different team’s pages and located the minimum and the maximum for tickets within those two categories. (Try to find Ulm’s, not that simple…) Once I had all those prices in an Excel chart, I put them together in a smaller chart, sorted it by alphabetical order of the team name and colored the fields from red (most expensive) to green (cheapest). There’s a function for that in Excel. This is what I came up with and put in my tweet (that went through the roof, compared to pretty much all tweets I ever sent out):

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Season’s over, Bayern take the Finals in four games. I wouldn’t say Alba came closest to beating Bayern these playoffs, as Oldenburg fought them over five games and actually caused a lot more trouble for Bayern’s offense. But Alba did come close and had to deal with a Bayern team that stepped up their game when it mattered most.

Anyways, I’ve done it for the first-round and second-round matchups, so here’s the Shot Charts for the Finals between Bayern München and Alba Berlin.¹

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Shot Charts for the 2013/2014 Beko BBL Finals. (All numbers per June 19, 2014)

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After I visualised the shot charts for the first-round matchups, I wanted to do the semi-finals, too. Here’s the image followed by some notes on every team:¹

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Who shoots best when the game is on the line? Let’s call it being clutch. I chose to not come up with a new definition of crunch time but to take the commonly used NBA version of it.

I’ve counted all shots being taken by any player in the league with five or less minutes on the clock in the fourth quarter or overtime when the teams were within five points of each other.

Here’s the table of all players who took at least ten of those shots, sorted by their FG% in the given situation:

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Top-15 players in FG% when the game is on the line

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All quarter-finals have been played. Ludwigsburg, Bamberg, Ulm, and Bonn came up short leaving the semis to Bayern, Artland, Alba, and Oldenburg.

Here’s how all eight teams shot in their first-round matchups:¹

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Shot Charts for the 2013/2014 Beko BBL playoff teams. (All numbers per May 22, 2014)

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About a month ago, I visualized what might come closest to Kirk Goldsberry’s shot charts for the Artland Dragons and their superior three-point shooting.

Now, with the Beko BBL playoffs and Artland’s series against Bamberg coming up, I did the same for Bamberg’s shooting percentages from the different areas. Here is what I came up with:¹

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Brose Baskets’ Shot Charts for the 2013/2014 Beko BBL Regular Season. (All numbers per May 10, 2014)

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Obviously, these shot charts look nothing like Kirk Goldsberry’s. We don’t really have specific shooting locations available for BBL teams, certainly not for players. (We got this here, you decide for yourselves whether you find it useful.)
I still wanted to experiment a little, so what I did here is simply seperating the shot chart into shooting percentags from near-distance, from mid-range, and from 3-point land (as available in Beko BBL’s play-by-play). The colors range from a dark green (really good) over yellow (mediocre) to a dark red (really bad), always compared to the rest of the league.

Take Artland as my first try:

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Artland Dragons’ Shot Charts for the 2013/2014 Beko BBL Season. (All numbers per Apr. 5, 2014, 28 games played.)

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This is not new, @sJacas found this for Euroleague months ago. I ran the numbers for this year’s BBL and they tell the same story: Bamberg do better with Rakim Sanders at Power Forward than they do with him at Small Forward.

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Huge upside to Sanders playing at Power Forward (all numbers per Mar. 13, 2014)

Also, I thought he might lose some minutes to Elias Harris when Bamberg signed him, but Sanders kind of blossomed instead. He might even have found his shooting rhythm over the last games and could make his 3P shot a bigger threat to opposing defenses.

(OffRtg/DefRtg in points per 100 possessions, all numbers are generated from the official Beko BBL play-by-plays.)

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It’s been more than two months now and six BBL games (all losses) that Andrew Rautins has missed due to a season-ending injury. And Frankfurt’s offense misses him badly.*

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Frankfurt’s offense stagnating since Rautins has gone down (all numbers per Mar. 8, 2014)

(OffRtg/DefRtg in points per 100 possessions, all numbers are generated from the official Beko BBL play-by-plays.)

(*Note that Jacob Burtschi, too, missed every one of those six games plus one more.)

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So, when crunching the numbers for Oldenburg’s rather unstable, but still successful season, I found two rather interesting arguments pointing at Oldenburg doing quite well when going for big lineups.

First one goes for Robin Smeulders: He plays a lot of Center this season, mostly due to Adam Chubb’s injury. Oldenburg, as a team, though does better both offensively and defensively with Smeulders at Power Forward. Shooting and rebounding numbers tell that Smeulders himself performs (slightly) better, too,  when playing at the 4.

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Oldenburg doing better with Smeulders at PF (all numbers per Feb. 28, 2014)

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