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2013 NFL Draft Prospects

22nd March 2013

We've added a table of NFL Draft prospects with their ages, schools, and links to their college stats (where available). If you're wondering who that guy is you've heard your team is working out, this is the place to look.

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Add a Baseball-Reference Search box to your site – Baseball-Reference.com

22nd March 2013

Baseball-Reference.com Search Box.

This is a very basic box, but if you like our player pages and our happy to direct your users here, we'd love to welcome them.

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NCAA Tournament Game Previews

21st March 2013

Want a handy guide to each matchup of the tournament? Check out our game previews. Each contains the individual & team stats you need to know before watching the game. You can access them for the first round in the table below, and they're always available on the previews page & the main page as well.

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March Madness History

20th March 2013

Want to find brackets and boxscores from past NCAA Tournaments? Check out the Postseason Section of S-R/College Basketball. There, you'll find the bracket for every NCAA tourney ever played, along with boxscores of every all-time NCAA tournament game (click the scores in the brackets to see that game's boxscore).

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Fill out your brackets with our NCAA Basketball Tempo-Free Ratings

18th March 2013

Tempo-free stats have become all the rage in college basketball recently -- and why? Because they work! Reducing the influence of pace and adjusting for strength of schedule gives a clearer picture of which teams are truly the best in the country, which will help you make better NCAA Tournament picks. That's why we list our own version of schedule-adjusted, tempo-free ratings on our yearly Ratings pages.

Here are this year's top 40 teams:

SRS Adjusted
Rk School Conf OSRS DSRS SRS ORtg DRtg NRtg ?
1 Florida SEC 8.43 16.27 24.70 119.35 80.46 38.88
2 Indiana Big Ten 18.31 7.64 25.95 122.74 84.65 38.09
3 Louisville Big East 11.73 12.56 24.29 114.89 78.23 36.67
4 Duke ACC 14.88 7.04 21.91 119.76 86.76 33.00
5 Gonzaga WCC 11.81 9.75 21.56 119.06 86.22 32.84
6 Pittsburgh Big East 4.91 14.74 19.65 118.13 85.94 32.19
7 Michigan Big Ten 12.88 7.34 20.22 121.81 90.18 31.63
8 Kansas Big 12 11.88 9.33 21.21 114.47 83.05 31.43
9 Ohio State Big Ten 8.85 11.64 20.49 115.63 84.22 31.41
10 Wisconsin Big Ten 3.89 15.49 19.38 110.87 80.66 30.21
11 Michigan State Big Ten 6.20 12.42 18.62 112.57 83.89 28.68
12 Syracuse Big East 9.25 10.15 19.40 113.58 85.30 28.27
13 Miami (FL) ACC 5.31 11.87 17.18 112.90 86.51 26.38
14 Georgetown Big East 1.43 15.38 16.81 107.77 81.55 26.23
15 Creighton MVC 11.01 5.82 16.83 118.82 92.75 26.07
16 Arizona Pac-12 10.19 6.83 17.02 113.76 88.13 25.63
17 Minnesota Big Ten 7.06 9.74 16.80 112.36 86.77 25.59
18 Oklahoma State Big 12 8.20 8.03 16.22 109.39 85.00 24.39
19 Missouri SEC 11.83 4.31 16.14 114.67 90.39 24.29
20 Virginia Commonwealth A-10 11.60 4.89 16.50 113.36 89.56 23.80
21 Saint Louis A-10 3.92 10.81 14.72 108.34 84.99 23.36
22 Colorado State MWC 9.33 5.13 14.46 116.55 93.49 23.06
23 Saint Mary's (CA) WCC 9.69 5.04 14.73 117.09 94.31 22.78
24 New Mexico MWC 5.24 9.20 14.44 109.03 86.42 22.61
25 Notre Dame Big East 7.38 7.06 14.44 116.00 93.39 22.61
26 Marquette Big East 8.16 6.32 14.48 113.55 91.09 22.47
27 North Carolina State ACC 13.90 0.95 14.85 116.72 94.66 22.06
28 San Diego State MWC 5.26 8.72 13.98 107.78 86.19 21.59
29 Iowa Big Ten 8.01 6.05 14.06 108.42 86.87 21.55
30 Virginia ACC -0.76 14.14 13.38 107.96 86.42 21.55
31 North Carolina ACC 13.27 1.64 14.91 111.37 89.99 21.39
32 Kansas State Big 12 4.45 9.37 13.82 112.52 91.20 21.32
33 Cincinnati Big East 4.01 10.75 14.75 105.53 84.61 20.92
34 Iowa State Big 12 15.34 -1.35 13.99 116.18 95.39 20.79
35 Kentucky SEC 9.90 4.81 14.71 111.35 90.59 20.76
36 Mississippi SEC 13.45 1.10 14.55 110.36 89.76 20.60
37 Baylor Big 12 9.83 3.80 13.63 112.32 91.72 20.60
38 Wichita State MVC 4.24 8.96 13.20 108.36 87.93 20.44
39 Nevada-Las Vegas MWC 7.48 6.31 13.79 105.85 85.45 20.40
40 UCLA Pac-12 12.32 1.41 13.73 111.94 91.67 20.26
Provided by Sports-Reference.com/CBB: View Original Table
Generated 3/18/2013.

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Add Your Posts to Our Player Newsfeeds!

13th March 2013

Automatic Player Linker / Add your site to our newsfeeds

With Spring Training getting into gear, here's a reminder that you can request for your site to be added to our player newsfeeds. To get started, all you have to do is write a post as you normally would and use our linker tool, causing baseball-reference player links to be automatically added. Then let us know you want to be included by sending us the following information:

  • The name of your site to appear in the feed (at most 25 characters)
  • The url for your rss feed (must be a full feed)
  • A contact e-mail address
  • The url of an example page with our links in place

We'll review your request, and try to get your content added as soon as we can. It's a great way to get your content out there, and it gives your readers quick access to player stats and information.

In case you want more info, here are two videos about how it works:

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Heat Maps Added to Shooting Splits

13th March 2013

This is just a short post to let you know that I have added heat maps to the shooting splits. Here is an example:

heatmap

The coloring is based on points scored, so areas with fewer points scored will have a blue shade while areas with more points scored will have a red shade.

The heat maps are generated on the fly, so when you drill down into the shooting splits the heat map will update as well. Be advised that for players who take a lot of shots (e.g., Kobe Bryant in 2005-06), the heat map may take a second or two to appear after the page is finished loading.

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Video: S-R Stat Table SHARE Tutorial

12th March 2013

Here's a 2-minute tutorial on how to embed professional-looking stat tables on your own blog:

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Play Index Free Trial Through April 15

11th March 2013

Get ready for the baseball season with a free trial for the Baseball-Reference.com Play Index.

Visit the Play Index Subscription Page to create an account (if needed) and use the coupon code "Analytics" to get your free trial.

Only 20 days to opening day. Happy Baseball!

Posted in Advanced Stats, Announcement, Baseball-Reference.com, Data, expire40d, Play Index, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

NFL Free Agent List

11th March 2013

NFL free agency begins tomorrow afternoon, so we've put up our yearly list of available free agents that will be updated as players sign. Keep an eye on it to see who's still available & who's worth signing.

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