Question:

Q19. Analyze the NBA Conference Finals (May 17th- May 29th) and determine whether it had an impact on NBA Top Shot's volume.

\n Did the Warriors, Celtics, Mavericks, or Heat see higher sales volume?

Introduction:

First of all as a NBA fan want to thank Flipside and FLOW data providers for these valuable data about NBA and special moments!

This essay is about the impacts of NBA final four on Sale volume of NBA Top Shots. We know that the East conference final played between Celtics and Heat. Also, the west conference final played among Warriors and Dallas Mavericks.

According to the teams that were on NBA final four, the impact of NFTs related to these teams on NBA Top shots sale has been investigated. The time period of NBA conference finals was May 17th- May 29th.

To explore the data provided by Flipside, the NFTs have been studied based on the category of play (Dunk, Block, …) and players of the final four teams.

The results demonstrate the exact impacts of teams and players on sale volume of NBA top shots.

Approach:

• Sale volume

  from flow.core.fact_nft_sales

  where TX_SUCCEEDED='TRUE'

  and NFT_COLLECTION='A.0b2a3299cc857e29.TopShot'

  and BLOCK_TIMESTAMP>='2022-05-01' and BLOCK_TIMESTAMP<'2022-06-01'

• Identification of NFTs

  from flow.core.fact_nft_sales x left outer join flow.core.dim_topshot_metadata y on x.NFT_ID=y.NFT_ID

• Season and teams

  SET_NAME='2022 NBA Playoffs'

  and y.team in ('Golden State Warriors' ,'Boston Celtics', 'Dallas Mavericks','Miami Heat')

• Further investigation

  PLAYER flow.core.dim_topshot_metadata -- stands for players of teams

  PLAY_CATEGORY flow.core.dim_topshot_metadata -- stands for Type of plays

  
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Results:

Key findings 1:

The sale performance of NBA Top Shots has been investigated by sales volume and count of sale.

1. According to the results, the sales count did not changed very much and kept its movement compared to the previous days.
2. By looking to the sale volume of NBA Top shots, it can be seen that the sales volume has been increased specially on May 19th, 2022.
3. The highest sale volume on NBA conference finals occurred on May 19th with over 826k.

Key findings 2:

The second part stands for the investigation about the NFT sale volume of NBA conference finals teams vs other 26 teams on NBA.

1. The sale volume and count for these mentioned teams have been increased in the NBA conference finals, accordingly.
2. The sale volume of each team enhanced in the specific days of the NBA conference finals and the main reasons of that are the performance of each team on that day or some special plays by players of these teams.
3. For example as can be seen, the sale volume of Golden State Warriors increased on May 22th for special performance of its players on that date.
4. The sale volume and count of Golden State Warriors on NBA Top shots sale were greater than other teams most of the days because of the dominant performance of “Chef” Curry and other players.

Key findings 3:

The final part of this investigation stands for the extra exploration on NFT data and find out some interesting outcomes.

1. Like in Basketball court, Golden State Warriors has dominate performance on sale of NFTs in the period of NBA conference finals.
2. The main Offensive strategy of Golden State Warriors is 3 points by Steph and Klay Thompson and this play type has 44.2% of sale volume in the Conference finals period.
3. The chart related to the play category reveals the change of strategies in modern Basketball and most of the teams use 3 points unlike the color zone played in the past years.
4. Reggie Bullock from Dallas Mavericks has the highest sale volume in the Conference finals but the Jimmy Butlers phenomenal performance could not be ignored on Celtics series.
5. Also, Jason Tatum as young talent has some good plays and takes the 4th place on sale volume by players.