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HoopMind: AI system plans basketball possessions in real-time

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Researchers have developed HoopMind, a real-time neural game-tree system designed for opponent-aware possession planning in basketball. The system fuses data from five public sources, including shot locations and play-by-play feeds, to create a dataset of over 4.23 million shots. HoopMind uses ShotNet, an embedding multilayer perceptron, to model shot values and an expectimax search algorithm with pruning for real-time offensive decision-making. The system is designed to be lightweight, running offline during training and operating efficiently in a browser for a playable simulator and scouting planner. AI

IMPACT This system demonstrates how AI can be applied to sports analytics for real-time strategic planning, potentially influencing coaching and player development.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a research paper detailing a novel AI system for a specific application. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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HoopMind: AI system plans basketball possessions in real-time

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yibo Gong, Cong Guo, Jiacheng Ding ·

    HoopMind: A Real-Time Neural Game-Tree System for Opponent-Aware Possession Planning

    arXiv:2608.29563v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: School coaches prepare for opponents with game film and intuition. The analytics tools of professional teams stay out of reach. We ask how far public data can close this gap. Professional basketball is our case study, chosen for i…

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