circle_assist_net: Circle Assist Network

In snestler/wncaahoopR: Scrapes Women's Basketball Play-by-Play Data from ESPN.com

Description

This function produces an assist network visualization for a team for a single game (or collection of games).

Usage

circle_assist_net(.data, team, node_col, highlight_player, highlight_color, three_weights, threshold, message, listing)

Arguments

.data	play-by-play data frame returned from w_get_pbp_game function
team	Team to create network for. Can be bare home or away variable from play-by-play object or quoted team name.
node_col	Color for each node in the data.
highlight_player	Name of player to highlight in assist network. 'NA' yields full team assist network with no player highlighting. Default = 'NA'.
highlight_color	Color of player links to be highlighted. 'NA' if “'highlight_player“' is 'NA'.
three_weights	Logical indicating whether to give extra weight for assisted three point shots. If TRUE, assisted three-point shots will be given weight 1.5 (as opposed to weight 1). Default = 'TRUE'.
threshold	Number between 0-1 indicating minimum percentage of team assists/baskets a player needs to exceed to be included in network. Default = 0.
message	User supplied plot title to overwrite default plot title, if desired. Default = 'NA'.
listing	Allows disabling the return of list of network statistics

Value

List with network statistics

• "clust_coeff" - Network Clustering Coefficient

• "page_ranks" - Player Page Ranks in network

• "hub_scores" - Player Hub Scores in network

• "auth_scores" - Player Authority Scores in network

• "ast_freq" - Player percentage of team's assists

• "shot_freq" - Player percenatge of scoring on team's assisted baskets

snestler/wncaahoopR documentation built on Oct. 18, 2021, 2:11 p.m.