6 Degrees, NBA Style

http://six-degrees-nba.appspot.com/

from Reddit, of course
http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1m ... a_website/


Tom Heinsohn → Bob Cousy → Fred Foster → Moses Malone → Dana Barros → Paul Pierce
Tom Heinsohn → Bob Cousy → Fred Foster → Moses Malone → Doc Rivers
Tom Heinsohn → Bob Cousy → Fred Foster → Moses Malone → Jon Barry → Yao Ming
Tom Heinsohn → Tom Sanders → Dave Cowens → Alton Lister → Jermaine O'neal → Rajon Rondo

Jeremy Lin → Charlie Bell → Shawn Bradley → Moses Malone → Rick Barry → Gary Phillips → Carl Braun → Wat Misaka

7 degrees

Basically there's a 10+ year vet on almost every team and then each degree jumps a decade when they get to them

Darko Milicic → Elden Campbell → Mychal Thompson → Jim Mcmillian → Wilt Chamberlain

Fab Melo → Leandro Barbosa → Howard Eisley → Moses Malone → Fred Foster → Bob Cousy → Sonny Hertzberg → Art Spector

Anthony Davis → Louis Amundson → Nazr Mohammed → Rick Mahorn → Austin Carr → Lenny Wilkens → Larry Foust → Max Zaslofsky

Bismack Biyombo → D.j. Augustin → Juwan Howard → Otis Thorpe → Don Buse → Gus Johnson → Red Kerr → Connie Simmons → Tony Kappen

Bill Russell → Tom Sanders → Jo Jo White → Robert Parish → Alonzo Mourning → Joel Anthony
Wilt Chamberlain → Al Attles → Rick Barry → Robert Parish → Alonzo Mourning → Joel Anthony

WTF does this tool do?

Did this guy make this w/o access to BR database?

Copy pasting tables from b-r isn't hard.

pulling_strings 5 points 9 hours ago
niiiiice
how'd you end up taking the data from b-ref?

Lacotte 2 points 5 hours ago
just scrape it. everything is in html tables

Cory Higgins → Matt Carroll → Kevin Willis → Mike Glenn → Jim Cleamons → Wilt Chamberlain
Kevin Burleson → Alan Anderson → Eric Williams → Frank Brickowski → Kareem Abdul-jabbar
Desagana Diop → Darrell Armstrong → Brian Shaw → Larry Bird
Tyrus Thomas → Raja Bell → Avery Johnson → Gerald Henderson → Don Chaney → Bill Russell

Dwight Howard → Kobe Bryant → Shaquille O'neal
Dwight Howard → Metta World Peace → Dikembe Mutombo
Dwight Howard → Keith Bogans → Omer Asik
Dwight Howard → Carlos Arroyo → Joel Anthony
Dwight Howard → Doug Christie → James Edwards → Don Chaney → Bill Russell
Dwight Howard → Steve Blake → Chris Whitney → Moses Malone → Jim Price → Wilt Chamberlain

Bill Russell → Tom Sanders → Jo Jo White → Robert Parish → Alonzo Mourning → Joel Anthony
Wilt Chamberlain → Al Attles → Rick Barry → Robert Parish → Alonzo Mourning → Joel Anthony

Joel Anthony in a very good company


Tony Kappen → Dick Murphy → Sonny Hertzberg → Bob Cousy → Fred Foster → Adrian Dantley → Karl Malone → Jannero Pargo → Kemba Walker

9 degree

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Dwight Howard → Keith Bogans → Omer Asik

Ummmmm.... I guess being teammates right now doesn't count?


By the way... IT LIES: Bob Cousy → Fred Foster → Adrian Dantley → Karl Malone → Jannero Pargo → Cory Higgins

Pargo and Higgins were never on a roster together. Higgins was waived in the first month or so of the season and Pargo was signed in the last month of the season. I know it's probably a quirk of the system (just assumes all players played for the team that year the whole year.)


Also, try to get one longer than this:
Fred Sheffield → Howie Dallmar → Kenny Sailors → Bob Cousy → John Havlicek → Kermit Washington → Chris Mullin → Al Harrington → Maurice Harkless
9 players. I seriously don't think it's possible to top this.


EDIT: I am having far too much fun with this.

Last edited by rise on Wed Sep 11, 2013 4:16 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Metta World Peace → B.j. Armstrong → Rodney Mccray → World B. Free

Also, try to get one longer than this:
Fred Sheffield → Howie Dallmar → Kenny Sailors → Bob Cousy → John Havlicek → Kermit Washington → Chris Mullin → Al Harrington → Maurice Harkless
9 players. I seriously don't think it's possible to top this.

You can't from what I can tell. It doesn't scrape properly from certain teams. You can't even connect certain players from the same team. (Like Kobe and Pau Gasol.)

That's why my Biyombo one above topped at 9 because Kappen was the only player on the entire roster that wouldn't return an "invalid names" result.

The easiest way to get to eight or nine is to pick a young player on a young team today and an old player (at the time) from the past. Then you hope nobody they've played with ever played with Moses, Kareem, Parish, Malone, etc.

I wonder what the largest gap is between active players.

EDIT: For example, Andre Drummond → Will Bynum → Chauncey Billups → Jared Jeffries → Damian Lillard

I actually wanna see the coding/algorithm behind it now. I wanna create one of these basketball tools these days actually and probably start a blog or something. LoL

I actually wanna see the coding/algorithm behind it now. I wanna create one of these basketball tools these days actually and probably start a blog or something. LoL

As do I. Can't be too much different from the Traveling Salesman Problem I had to code when I was still doing computer science.





By the way, I'm trying to get 10 different players and I swear Al Harrington ruins everything.

Vern Mikkelsen → Elgin Baylor → Jerry Chambers → George Gervin → Michael Jordan → Jared Jeffries → Damian Lillard
Neil Johnston → Larry Costello → Billy Cunningham → Darryl Dawkins → Karl Malone → Jannero Pargo → Michael Kidd-gilchrist

Andrew Bogut → Jermaine Jackson → Hakeem Olajuwon → Cedric Maxwell → John Havlicek → Clyde Lovellette → George Mikan

Chris Anstey → Randy Brown → James Edwards → Don Chaney → Bill Russell

Patrick Mills → Marcus Camby → Mark Bryant → Danny Ainge → Tiny Archibald

Mark Bradtke → Derrick Coleman → Carlos Arroyo → Dwight Howard

Luc Longley → Bill Cartwright → Jim Cleamons → Jerry West

Nathan Jawai → Brian Cardinal → Dana Barros → Dave Corzine → Jim Cleamons → Wilt Chamberlain

Kyrie Irving → Antawn Jamison → Muggsy Bogues → Bernard King → Pete Maravich

Andrew Gaze → Antonio Daniels → Tony Massenburg → Larry Bird

Darko Milicic → Hubert Davis → Michael Jordan
Kobe Bryant → Elden Campbell → Brian Scalabrine
Derrick Rose → Drew Gooden → Anderson Varejao → Kyrie Irving

Just saying, to get a lot of degrees, use MKG as the end product. He is the youngest player in the NBA.