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Spotting Boards 114: automating season or career highs for basketball

WARNING: this may overload your spreadsheet and may not be worth doing. But why not push the limits of what's possible?

Automating season highs or career highs is complicated for multiple reasons.

  1. You need access to a great data set in order for it to even be possible.

  2. You actually need access to ten great data sets because you have ten players.

  3. The NCAA’s data sets have multiple flaws.

  4. Doing this could easily overload your Google Sheet and make the whole spotting board get stuck in its own version of the pinwheel of death.

  5. It takes a lot of creativity and problem solving to make it work.

So, if you’re anything like me, you probably read that as a big fat challenge and you want to spend an entire weekend trying to figure it out. Right?

Well, I’ve spent five years trying to figure it out, and I know it’s doable, but I will tell you, I’m not sure the juice is worth the squeeze.

That said, let’s dive in to what we would have to do in order to get at least the season highs to automate onto our boards.

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