Flow: What makes a Top Shots moment valuable? (Part I)
Flow: FLOW Usage During the NBA Playoffs
Create an analysis on NBA Top Shots moments and attempt to uncover any correlations between a specific category and sales volume.
This week, focus specifically on the play_type column in the flow.core.dim_topshot_metadata table. What play_types do users hold most, and how much volume in sales do these play_types generate? Include any other transactional metrics you can think of.
FLOW
Flow is a fast, decentralized, and developer-friendly blockchain, designed as the foundation for a new generation of games, apps, and the digital assets that power them. It is based on a unique, multi-role architecture, and designed to scale without sharding, allowing for massive improvements in speed and throughput while preserving a developer-friendly, ACID-compliant environment.
NBA Top Shot is an NFT marketplace where basketball video clips may be purchased, sold, and traded. NBA Top Shot, which debuted in 2020, is a collaboration between the NBA and Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties. Users of this NFT can purchase, trade, and collect NBA NFTs that highlight significant "Moments" that were created on the FLOW blockchain.
Flow Volume Results
- This charts shows the daily and cumulative transaction volume on Flow.
- As can be seen, there was a postive trend in NFT sales specifically from the middle of May.
- The day with more volume was June 25th with +1,9M transactions.
- From April 20th until today more than 56 M transaction were done in Flow.
NBA Top Shot Volume Results
- This chart show the daily sales volume of NBA Top Shot NFT collection.
- As we can see there is a large volume of sales during Mid april and start of May.
- The day with more volume was May 6th with +67k transactions.
- From April 20th until today more than 1,6 M transaction were done about NBA Top Shot NFT collection.
NBA Top Shot Volume Results by Team and play_type
By team:
- As can be seen on the chart the Warriors, Celtics, Mavericks, or Heat saw higher sales volume during the NBA conference finals.
- The 4 teams make up to +40% of sales during that period.
- Mavericks got 8448 sales making 11,6% of the total.
- Warriors got 8276 sales making 11,3% of the total.
- Celtics got 7050 sales making 9,65% of the total.
- Miami Heat got 6338 sales making 8,67% of the total.
By Play Type:
- The most volume is on NFT with Rim as a play_Type +29k , followed by pointer ones +16k.
- Rim ones has more than 40% of the total NBA Top Shot NFT.
- The TOP 3 accounts for more than 75% of the total volume (Rim, 3 Pointer, Block)