I can try to look into that. The place I’m going to start is the Thinking Basketball channel because I think they may have done something like that already.

Undisciplined

Stacker News Post Request:  History of flopping in the NBA.

What I want to understand is the institutional changes that gave rise to more flopping, their rationales, and their impact on the quality of the entertainment product.  I know that calling fouls on defense more aggressively gives rise to more scoring, which fans like, but is it really better if the scoring comes from FTs?

OTOH, the dominance of the 3pter suggests that if you let people play defense more aggressively on drives, you'll just get even more dominance of three point shooting, right?

Stacker_Sports

To Flop or not, Brown flopping NBA

gsc360

Stacker News Post Request:  History of flopping in the NBA.

What I want to understand is the institutional changes that gave rise to more flopping, their rationales, and their impact on the quality of the entertainment product.  I know that calling fouls on defense more aggressively gives rise to more scoring, which fans like, but is it really better if the scoring comes from FTs?

OTOH, the dominance of the 3pter suggests that if you let people play defense more aggressively on drives, you'll just get even more dominance of three point shooting, right?