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Hello @alessandroBombelli, thanks for your interest in JOSS. Before we proceed, during my review of your submission, I could not find the research application of your software. While useful for folks in basketball, I don't quite see where someone would cite this in the academic literature (not an explicit requirement, but one way we think about whether software has a research use).

Can you clarify this, per one of our submission requirements?

The software should have an obvious research application.

alessandroBombelli/pyHoops#46 should fix the immediate paper building process

Hello @alessandroBombelli, thanks for your interest in JOSS. Before we proceed, during my review of your submission, I could not find the research application of your software. While useful for folks in basketball, I don't quite see where someone would cite this in the academic literature (not an explicit requirement, but one way we think about whether software has a research use).

Can you clarify this, per one of our submission requirements?

The software should have an obvious research application.

Dear @kyleniemeyer, apologies if the research application is not clear. I agree that, at a first glance, the obvious research application might not be as straight-forward as in other cases. On the other hand, a strong interest in data analytics applied to sports has been growing in recent years, as testified by ad-hoc conferences (MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference) and journals (Journal of Sports Sciences). To this avail, the research application of this work is the possibility to compute a set of team performance indices (per player and per lineup) to be used, as example, to infer lineup performances in future games. Knowing how different lineups perform against different opposing lineups (e.g., "tall", or "fast" lineups), can be used as part of a decision-making process to improve performances of a team. In addition, a sufficiently comprehensive database retrieved via pyHoops (e.g., a full season), can be used as the input for a prediction model (e.g., random forest) to assess what are the features (lineup- or player-specific) more crucial for a team's success. I hope this answers your question. I am willing to elaborate more if the answer is not satisfactory. Thank you!

I can take

alessandroBombelli/pyHoops#46 should fix the immediate paper building process

Dear @danielskatz, sorry for the issue. but it is my first time here and, as such, I am not familiar with the formatting. I followed the example provided in the guidelines but thought that, being a single author, the distinction between affiliation and affiliations was not necessary. I fixed the issue now. Please let me know otherwise.
Thank you very much

@danielskatz thanks for volunteering—did you mean to close the issue?

@alessandroBombelli ok, so I think it would help to revise your article to better describe the research applications of the software, so this is clear to reviewers (and readers), focusing specifically on the types of research questions/problems this helps answer.

What you are describing to me sounds more like what a basketball team might use, but not an academic researcher writing a publication (for example)—but I may still be misunderstanding.

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👉 Check article proof 📄 👈

I've suggested more changes in alessandroBombelli/pyHoops#48 - after merging this, you can enter @whedon generate pdf as a new comment here to regenerate the paper.

@whedon assign @danielskatz as editor

OK, the editor is @danielskatz