{"id":2712,"date":"2015-06-21T22:43:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T02:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockx.com\/sneaker-blog\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2015-12-17T13:09:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T18:09:10","slug":"chicken-curry-game-stats-by-shoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockx.com\/news\/chicken-curry-game-stats-by-shoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Curry: Game Stats by Shoe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Curry is arguably the most important name in all of sports right now. \u00a0Let us count the reasons why . . . OK, we’re done counting . . . we got\u00a0four:<\/p>\n

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  1. The obvious:<\/strong> Dude just led his team to an NBA championship after winning regular season MVP;<\/li>\n
  2. The aww:<\/strong> \u00a0His daughter Riley has the MVP of cute kids on serious lock (although I’m biased towards this kid)<\/a>;<\/li>\n
  3. The good:<\/strong> Steph is perhaps the most* likable superstar professional sports has ever seen; and<\/li>\n
  4. The relevant:<\/strong> He doesn’t wear Nike or Jordan or Adidas or even Reebok . . . he balls in\u00a0Under Armour. \u00a0That’s right, the Spanx-for-football is making kicks and taking names – specifically, taking signature athletes from Beaverton.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    [*Unlikable superstars are far more common; and now we have\u00a0an excuse to link to this clip from Field of Dreams<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

    Steph has been with Under Armour since October 2013 – ever since Nike famously anointed Uncle Drew to the Swoosh Rushmore instead. \u00a0For the first half of this past season Curry wore the UA\u00a0ClutchFit Drive on the court. \u00a0On January 9th, a win against the Cavs no less, Steph finally unveiled his signature shoe, the Curry One. \u00a0Under Armour has trotted out a\u00a0litany of general release and player exclusive colorways in both models\u00a0(24, in total)\u00a0in a manner consistent with how Nike outfits\u00a0its\u00a0big four NBA stars. \u00a0And with that many different shoes, the possibilities abound at Campless HQ . . .<\/p>\n

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    In our last post, we undertook a\u00a0light-hearted analysis of NBA sneakerheads<\/a>, including a rough comparison of sneaker heat\u00a0to game performance. \u00a0Even assuming that sneakers might<\/em> impact on-court results, the fundamental problem with that\u00a0analysis is that it doesn’t account for inherent skill difference between players. \u00a0But if we had a single player to work with . . . a player who wore 24 different pairs of shoes over one season . . . well, that might be a different story.<\/p>\n

    Nick Engvall wrote a great piece last week titled Stephen Curry’s Performance in the UA Curry One Will Change The Future of Basketball Shoes<\/a>. Maybe. Maybe not. But it’s already changing the future of basketball shoe data analysis.<\/p>\n

    Methodology<\/span>:<\/strong><\/h1>\n

    It’s a proven fact that 27 & 10 will get you chicken curry at the Bristol cafeteria, and curry stew is served after 54 points, but it’s less clear what kicks lead to those\u00a0stats. \u00a0That’s the goal.<\/p>\n

    We owe a huge thanks to Ben Berry from The Hoop Doctors<\/a>, who collected the data for this analysis. \u00a0Ben identified every shoe Steph wore in every game (Playoffs included), and his stats from each game. \u00a0We then aggregated individual game stats by colorway to determine how Steph performed while wearing each shoe. \u00a0For example, Chef\u00a0wore the Dub Nation Curry One on 3\/18, 3\/31 and 4\/9. \u00a0We combined the\u00a0stats for those three games to arrive at performance stats for the Dub Nation . . . and so on for the other 23 colorways he wore this season.<\/p>\n

    Given the full roster of game stats there is no shortage of analyses we could do with the Under Armour star. \u00a0To start, we wanted to keep it simple: \u00a0How many points did Steph score in each shoe?<\/p>\n

    \"Chicken<\/a><\/p>\n

    Steph wore the ClutchFit Drive for the first 33 games of the season, and the Curry One\u00a0for the remaining 46 regular season games (he sat out two and we couldn’t identify one).<\/p>\n

    Key Insights<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n