The Effect of Points per Game on the Number of Wins in NBA

Xinyi Shang

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign 61820, Illinois, USA

Abstract: In the National Basketball Association (NBA), it contains a seasonal league matches. In a construction of a perfect team, not only coaches and players, the work of collecting statistic of each match also plays an important role. In this study, I pick up some of data which I think impact much on the number of wins and do a statistic analysis. The data are provided by Sports Reference, a professional, easy-to-get and up-to-date website, which contains a branch of basketball. In the dataset, I choose six independent variables which may have strong influence on the dependent variable. The results of my regression model verify my suspicion.

Keywords: Basketball; NBA wins; Multiple linear regression; Normal distribution