Last summer, the NBA announced that industry-leading sports technology company STATS LLC would be installing SportVU player-tracking cameras in every NBA arena prior to the 2013-14 season. The addition of SportVU, which collects data based on the location of every player on the court as well as the basketball 25 times per second, was lauded by the advanced stats community as a game changer. "Get ready to get smarter," NBA.com advanced stats writer John Schuhmann wrote at the time the partnership was announced.

In the NBA, advanced stats have become an essential tool for teams to understand and communicate what is happening on the floor. With SportVU taking data that not long ago was reserved for just a handful of teams and making it available to the public via stats.NBA.com, fans are joining the revolution.

With a baseline now set by the data collected by SportVU last season, making sense of the glut of information now available has become more manageable for aspiring hoops statisticians.

This regular feature on Sixers.com will highlight interesting statistical trends surrounding the team. At the risk of prematurity, here’s the first installment of Fun With SportVU three games into the 2014-15 season:

Click below for SportVU statistical notes (or click "view in browser" if using our mobile app)