In the last few years, there has been a growing shift towards the analytics side of basketball. Formerly unknown analytics maestros like Daryl Morey are now becoming more recognized, and their principles are being used to build teams that can contend for championships. A core tenet of sports analytics is stripping away the bias that is inherently present in humans, allowing for an evaluation of players at face value. Though the sports analytics movement has gained traction in NBA circles, many fans still haven’t embraced it, which precludes them from understanding certain trades and signings made by their favorite teams. One way to eliminate bias without the benefit of supercomputers and reams of data is through using cryptography to encrypt players’ names. This ensures that players are evaluated only based on their stats. Cryptography involves coding the plain text to make it secure and decoding the coded text to retrieve the plain text. The coding and decoding processes are
Sports team and player profiles and analytics.