[DjMaddius]

Well, really it depends on how much power your throwing mechanism has. If it throws hard you'll have to put much more arch on it so that it goes in instead of bouncing off of the backboard. On that same note, if it throws too light, you simply can't make a basket. You will have to perfect the mechanism before you can do any math towards which trajectory your throw it.

I personally plan on doing research on how catapults and what not determine where what they throw will land. Sometimes they can be very accurate though they tend to throw odd shapped things which makes it more difficult to guess.

If at all possible, I'd like to be able to accurately throw a ball from the other end of the field and make it in though this will require very precision mechanics which I'm not sure the guys running the machines around here can do. One thing is off and all my code doing the angle estimations will do no good.

Well, good luck to you!