NBA Finals Team Summary

Description

A dataset with individual team summaries for the NBA Finals series from 1950 to 2022. To win the Finals, a team must win 4 games. The maximum number of games in a series is 7.

Usage

nba_finals_teams

Format

A data frame with 33 rows and 7 variables:

team

Team name.

win

Number of NBA Championships won.

loss

Number of NBA Championships lost.

apps

Number of NBA Finals appearances.

pct

Win percentage.

years_won

Years in which the team won a Championship.

years_lost

Years in which the team lost a Championship.

Details

Notes:

1. The Chicago Stags folded in 1950, the Washington Capitols in 1951 and the Baltimore Bullets in 1954.

2. This list uses current team names. For example, the Seattle SuperSonics are not on the list as that team moved and became the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Source

List of NBA Champions.

Examples

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(openintro)

teams_with_apps <- nba_finals_teams |>
  filter(apps != 0)

ggplot(teams_with_apps, aes(x = win)) +
  geom_histogram(binwidth = 2) +
  labs(
    title = "Number of NBA Finals series wins",
    x = "Number of wins",
    y = "Number of teams"
  )

ggplot(teams_with_apps, aes(x = apps, y = win)) +
  geom_point(alpha = 0.3) +
  labs(
    title = "Can we predict how many NBA Championships a
team has based on the number of appearances?",
    x = "Number of NBA Finals appearances",
    y = "Number of NBA Finals series wins"
  )