Where the points come fromEach card splits a player's points four ways, and each split adds back up to his box-score points: shot zones + free throws, catch-and-shoot vs. pull-up vs. everything else + free throws (NBA tracking), assisted vs. unassisted 2s and 3s + free throws, or first vs. second chance (second chance = after an offensive rebound). The court is always the zone split; its labels are the share of his points and the points per 100 possessions from each zone.

Against the leagueFor every zone: volume (attempts), accuracy (FG% or FT%) and points from that zone, with a percentile among players over the minutes cutoff. The small number after each value is the percentile (50 = median; blue is low, orange is high). Accuracy needs a minimum number of attempts to get a percentile.

What-if labMove one slider and everything else stays fixed. It works on shot zones or, with that split picked, on catch-and-shoot / pull-up / everything else. Change one, hold the rest adds or removes shots. Keep total shots moves shots between zones instead, so taking more threes means fewer of everything else. The point is how much each piece moves the total, not a prediction: real players can't change one thing in isolation.

SeedsEarly in a season the samples are tiny. Seed accuracy from loads the player's percentages from any earlier season, his career, or the league average into the lab, so you can see what this year's shot diet scores at those percentages. Tick seed volume too to load that season's shot diet as well.

DefinitionsZones are pbpstats': at rim (within ~4 ft), short mid-range (~4–14 ft), long mid-range (14 ft to the line), corner 3, above-break 3 (includes heaves). Possessions are the player's offensive possessions. TS% = PTS / (2 × (FGA + 0.44 × FTA)). Points are box-score PTS.

Dataplayer_sheets modern.parquet / modern_ps.parquet (pbpstats + NBA totals and tracking, 2013-14 on); shot locations from shot_data, refreshed by the daily scrape. A handful of player-seasons don't add up exactly; the gap shows as Unattributed.