We analysed 4,678,387 NBA shots

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Check out Grant's Summer of Math Exposition (supported by Jane Street!) https://some.3b1b.co/ More details here: https://3blue1brown.substack.com/p/some3-begins Tim Chartier has a great book called "Get in the Game - An Interactive Introduction to Sports Analytics" if you'd like to learn more about their work. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo178291370.html Here is their Davidson College page: https://www.davidson.edu/people/tim-chartier The song "Get Ready for Maths" is written and recorded by Jonny Berlin based on the original "Get Ready for This" by 2 Unlimited. More songs by Jonny over here: http://www.jonnyberliner.com/lyrics-and-chords And thanks to Nolan Rau, Liz Labows and Bec Hill for rounding out our team of six. Check out MoMath's Hoop Curves. https://momath.org/home/hoop-curves/ Huge thanks to my Patreon supporters. They keep me in the game. https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths CORRECTIONS - At 04:44 I say "Noel" in the voice over instead of Nolan. Sorry Nolan! - Yes, in the plots of our shots at 05:13, 05:59 and 14:22 I left the axis labelled as "inches" and it should be "feet". - At 11:18 I say "eight points" but I mean "point eight points". - Let me know if you spot anything else! Diagram of basketball court adapted from this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basketball_-_NBA_-_field_diagram_-en.svg Photo of restricted zone during a game from Roy on Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/thehutch/1536622933 Filming by Alex Genn-Bash Editing by Nico Turner Some graphics by Grant Sanderson Other graphics by Matt's Terrible Python Code™ Written and performed by Matt Parker Produced by Nicole Jacobus Music by Howard Carter and Jonny Berliner Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician Website: http://standupmaths.com/ US book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker/ UK book: https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/humble-pi-signed-paperback