Project Overview:

• In this project, we scraped the data using Beautiful Soup and NBA-API in Python and applied 6 regression models to predict the All-NBA teams for the 2022-23 season.

• The LightGBM model achieved 0.13 RMSE and 0.81 R-squared.

• Our prediction:

  • First Team: Luka Dončić, Donovan Mitchell, Jayson Tatum, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid;

  • Determined important features using SHAP: PER, VORP, PTS, WS, USG%

• ​#NOTE: the data is up to Mar.19th, 2023