DunkAPI

dispatch

Routes a basketball analytics request to the right 2-3 skills. Load this FIRST when an NBA, WNBA or college basketball request comes in and you are unsure which skills to activate. Prevents loading all 16 skills when only 2-3 are needed. Do not use for a single obvious request such as devigging two prices, see odds-analysis directly.

dunkapi-tool

Default data source for the DunkAPI skills. Routes every call to the 18 DunkAPI tools for NBA, WNBA, men's and women's college basketball: games, box scores, play-by-play, shot charts, team ratings, odds, line movement and player props. Use when any other skill needs basketball data, or when the user asks which tool answers a question or what a call costs.

feature-engineering

Builds leak-free features for basketball prediction models from DunkAPI data: rolling team margin and efficiency, Elo rebuilt game by game, rest days and back-to-backs, home court, opponent-adjusted form, market features and player minutes. Use when the user wants to build a model of game outcomes, margins, totals or player stats, or asks what features to use or whether a feature leaks. Do not use for choosing a validation scheme, see walk-forward-validation. Do not use for calibrating output probabilities, see probability-calibration. Do not use for descriptive team or player summaries, see team-analysis or player-form.

game-lookup

Finds basketball games and reads results: scores by date, team, range or season, upcoming schedule, and a single game's full box score. Use when the user asks who played, what the score was, who plays tonight, a team's recent results, or wants a game id for another call. Covers NBA, WNBA, men's and women's college. Do not use for odds comparison, see odds-explorer. Do not use for team strength, see team-analysis. Do not use for a pre-game breakdown, see game-preview.

game-preview

Builds a full pre-game basketball preview: teams' Elo and efficiency, recent form, rest and back-to-backs, injuries, the market line across books, and a simple projection with its uncertainty. Use when the user asks to preview or break down tonight's game or the season opener, or wants everything needed before tip in one place. Works for the new season before it has games (falls back to last season's numbers and says so). Covers NBA, WNBA, men's and women's college. Do not use for results after the fact, see game-lookup. Do not use for devigging, see odds-analysis.

odds-analysis

Odds math for basketball betting markets: American, decimal and implied probability conversion, vig, and four devigging methods (multiplicative, additive/Shin, power) applied to moneylines, spreads, totals and player props, plus building a consensus no-vig line across sportsbooks. Use when the user asks what a price implies, how to remove the vig, what the true probability is, or what a fair line is. Do not use for finding the best price or line movement, see odds-explorer.

odds-explorer

Multi-book basketball odds comparison: best moneyline, spread and total across sportsbooks, vig per book, opening versus closing lines, and pre-tip line movement. Use when the user asks for current or historical odds, the best price, which book is off the market, how a line moved, or whether the home side covered. Covers NBA, WNBA, men's and women's college. Do not use for devigging or probability math, see odds-analysis. Do not use for player props, see prop-modeling.

player-form

Reads a basketball player's recent form from his game log: rolling averages, minutes trend, per-minute rates, rest effects, home and road splits and opponent context, with proper shrinkage so a hot week is not mistaken for a new talent level. Use when the user asks if a player is hot, how his minutes have changed, what his last 10 games say, or needs rolling inputs for a projection. Covers NBA, WNBA, men's and women's college. Do not use for season profile and comparisons, see player-scouting. Do not use for shot location, see shot-zone-analysis. Do not use for prop lines, see prop-modeling.

player-scouting

Looks up and profiles basketball players: finds the player id, reads per-season averages and shooting splits, compares two or more players on a per-minute basis, and pulls season leaderboards. Use when the user asks about a player, who leads a stat, how two players compare, or whether a scoring line is efficient or lucky. Covers NBA, WNBA, men's and women's college. Do not use for rolling or recent form across a season, see player-form. Do not use for shot location, see shot-zone-analysis. Do not use for prop lines, see prop-modeling.

probability-calibration

Checks and fixes whether basketball model probabilities mean what they say: reliability tables, Brier score and log loss, Platt scaling and isotonic regression fitted out of sample, converting predicted margins to win and cover probabilities, and shrinking toward the market. Use when a model outputs win, cover or over probabilities, asks if 65% really wins 65% of the time, or needs probabilities from a margin model. Do not use for building the model, see feature-engineering. Do not use for choosing splits, see walk-forward-validation.

prop-modeling

Builds basketball player prop models for points, rebounds, assists, threes, points + rebounds + assists, blocks and steals: projects minutes and per-minute rates from the game log, turns a projection into an over/under probability with a suitable distribution, compares it with devigged prop prices across books, and checks a player's history against his lines. Use when the user asks if a player will go over a number, how often he has hit his line, what a fair prop price is, or how to project a stat line. Props exist for NBA, WNBA and men's college only. Do not use for team-side or total models, see feature-engineering. Do not use for recent-form description alone, see player-form.

shot-zone-analysis

Analyzes basketball shot profiles by zone using DunkAPI shot data: attempts, makes and points per shot in restricted area, paint, midrange, corner three and above-the-break three, compared with expected points per shot to separate shot quality from shot making. Also covers team defence by zone, clutch shots and drawing a shot chart from x/y. Use when the user asks where a player or team shoots, whether a hot shooter is lucky, which defence gives up the worst shots, or wants expected points. Do not use for season box-score averages, see player-scouting. Do not use for team pace and ratings, see team-analysis.