WARRIORS: The Artometrics of the Golden State Dynasty

A data analysis of the Golden State Warriors franchise across 78 seasons (1947–2024), covering win percentage, three-point revolution, and historical season context. Published at artometrics.com.

What's in this repo

• warrior_final.qmd — Quarto markdown file containing all R code, analysis, and write-up
• artometrics.css — custom HTML theme (same across all Artometrics reports)
• art-head.html — header injection for fonts and nav
• art-body.html — body injection for brand bar
• chart1_win_pct_timeline.png — Warriors win percentage by season, 1947–2024, with dynasty windows and championship markers
• chart2_three_point_revolution.png — GSW vs. NBA league average three-point attempts per game, 1980–2024
• chart3_73_win_context.png — all 68+ win seasons in NBA history, dot plot with champion flags

What the analysis covers

Three charts working through the two-dynasty structure of the Warriors franchise and the analytical legacy of the Curry era:

1. The full 78-season win percentage arc — two dynasty windows, one 35-year drought, and the steepest single-season collapse in franchise history
2. The three-point revolution — how GSW ran ahead of the league from 2013 onward, and how the league eventually caught up
3. The 73-win season in historical context — the only team in the 68+ wins club that did not win the championship that year

Data sources

Basketball Reference. Golden State Warriors franchise history. Sportradar. Retrieved from https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/GSW/

Basketball Reference. NBA season summaries, 1979–2024. Sportradar. Retrieved from https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/

Win percentage and three-point attempt data were sourced from Basketball Reference franchise and season summary pages and stored as verified tibbles in the QMD. Three-point data begins 1979–80, the first season the NBA used the three-point line.

Tools

• R / Quarto
• tidyverse · ggplot2 · ggtext · scales · ggrepel · nbastatR

Artometrics

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Disclosure

Analysis based on publicly available Basketball Reference data. AI was used to assist in code generation, analysis, and writing. All research questions, editorial framing, and interpretive judgment are the author's own.