Beating the Odds

Using Data Science to Find the NBA’s Greatest Overachievers

Alex Muhr
Towards Data Science
9 min readApr 28, 2020

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Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

This is the first installment in my weekly sports themed series. Each week I’ll demonstrate applications of data science and seek to provide thoughtful analysis and insight into the games we love to watch.

In this article, I determine teams throughout NBA history that overachieved. Teams that the numbers…

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Using data science to uncover new perspectives, solve practical problems, and have some fun along the way.