# Project proposal

This planning document will also form the introduction of your 
argument.

## Overarching Question

### What central question are you interested in exploring? Why are you interested in exploring this question?

I am interested in NBA data and determining which players are the best.  I want to find the best offensive players, defensive players, and all around players.  I want to compare some of the most famous current NBA players and see who is the best.  I am interested in this because I have played basketball most of my life and enjoy watching the NBA.  I like looking at NBA players' stats so this was very interesting to me.


### What specific research questions will you investigate?

I want to see who is better between LeBron James and Kevin Durant.  I want to see who is the best offensive player in the NBA by looking at the RAPTOR offense stats.  I want to see who is the best defensive player in the NBA by looking at the RAPTOR defense stats.  I want to plot some of the best players on a graph to visually show the differences in players.  Also, I want to look at individual seasons and see who the best players were each season.


## Data source

### What data set will you use to answer your overarching question? 

I will use the NBA raptor data from FiveThirtyEight.
The link is: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/4c1ff5e3aef1816ae04af63218015066e186c147/nba-raptor/README.md


### Where is this data from?

I downloaded this from the FiveThirtyEight Github link.  I trust them as they have been around for a long time.  Also, I trust this data because it was given in the link in the project instructions.


### What is this data about?

This data says who the best players are in the NBA by season when looking at RAPTOR stats.  Using the raptor offense, defense, and total columns will be very important to me as this is how I will decide who is the best.


## Methods 

### How will you use your data set to answer your quantitative questions?

I will use some of my favorite NBA players and compare them based on RAPTOR stats.  Also, I will graph the top players in the NBA by RAPTOR stats.  I will make a scatterplot with some of the best NBA players.  I will make a scatterplot with LeBron James and Kevin Durant's raptor stats each season.

