NBA All-Star Predictive Modeling
Getting the Numbers to Agree with the Voters (and Vice-Versa) The NBA All-Star Game – one of the most exciting, interesting, and contentious accolades awarded every season. To be recognized as an All-Star shows that you truly made it in the league, and that your worth as a top-tier basketball player in the world has been recognized. Or does it? All-Star selection is historically a pretty arbitrary and subjective process. Media members, former players, and fans all have a say in selecting the top 12 players from each the Western and Eastern Conferences which from the surface may seem like a rather holistic and unbiased selection method. But how do these people make the decisions that they do? Is voting a popularity contest/social media content driven (think Alex Caruso, who had almost as many All-Star votes as Chris Paul this season)? Or is it biased towards more successful teams while leaving out players on less successful ones (think Draymond Green, who, although a grea...