NBA Playoff Usage

    Analyze the start of the NBA playoffs (mid-April) and determine whether it had an impact on Flow transaction volume. What about NBA Top Shots?

    NBA Top Shot is like a brand in Flow blockchain, when you talk about NFT collections on Flow NBA Top Shot is the first name that comes on the mind and even in the whole sport based NFT collections ibn all blockchains, NBA Top Shot is one the most famous and leaders.

    With this descriptions we are trying to find out Flow users activity on the days NBA playoffs in 2022. (from April until 17th June)

    At first let's take a look to the transaction counts:

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    As we see there is no special changes in transactions number in the playoffs period, Maybe the decrease in mid May is more effected by Crypto markets crush on that days, more than the Playoffs! and after ending the competition the transaction counts is growing! any way let's look at the volume of flow transfers in the blockchain:

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    Also here the spike day is right on the crypto market's crush, so maybe no correlation with NBA!

    But how about The NBA Top Shot collection sales? let's find out!

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    Looks like NBA Playoffs have some effects here! the sales count decreased after ending the The games. And here we are trying to compare sellers power vs buyers in the NBA playoffs days time period:

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    The unique sellers share in total addresses are more than the unique buyers, so it mean the NBA lover are busy to watching the game more than purchasing the collection!

    Conclusion:

    • NBA Playoffs does not have any special effects on the Flow general status, In fact crypto events like huge markets crush is more effecting power than non-Crypto events here!

    • The Collection sales during the Playoffs matches is more than normal days, So in this way, The real events attract some users to purchasing their favorite sport based NFTS.

    • Although Play Offs have some effect on the Collections sales count, but still there are more unique holders than purchasers.