How does the NBA’s best shooter ever get better? Steph Curry had a crazy idea: He used technology to make the basket smaller
A few years ago, a cancer researcher named Rachel Marty Pyke found herself at a conference for sports geeks, presenting a study she had undertaken in her spare time while pursuing a bioinformatics Ph.D. She had used a machine-learning algorithm to identify patterns in more than 20 million basketball shots that were tracked by technology developed with the help of a NASA rocket scientist. Now she was sharing the results.
Pyke had a personal connection to the work. Her father was the founder of a shot-tracking system that had generated a trove of fascinating data. He needed someone to help analyze it—and he didn’t have to look very far. It turned out his daughter had the quantitative expertise to dig through the numbers and write a report with her findings. “It was my Christmas present to him,” she said.
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