If you’re anything like me, you hate it when you’re curious about a certain statistic but you can’t find it anywhere. For instance, dunks is not a stat that’s generally accessible (although Bart Torvik has done a pretty incredible job of tracking it at the D1 men’s level.)
But fear not. Today’s lesson is all about how to extract literally any piece of data out of a play by play log!
The key to doing this easily and efficiently is this:
