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News and Notes

Posted by Justin Kubatko on November 7, 2012

We are now just a little over a week into the 2012-13 NBA season, so I wanted to fill you in on some things that have been happening over at Basketball-Reference.com:

  • Daily site updates started on October 31, and so far it looks like there haven't been any major issues. If you notice something, though, please don't hesitate to let us know.
  • I have added lineup pages for both players and teams. These pages display net results per 100 possessions for the most-used lineups (based on playing time) for each player/team.
  • I have added a league-wide injury report to supplement the injury reports that appear near the top of each team's roster and stats page.
  • Each season now has four player stat pages: Totals, Per Game, Per 36 Minutes, and Advanced. In the past there were just pages for basic totals and advanced stats.
  • The 2011-12 D-League stats have (finally) been updated with playoff stats, award winners, etc.
  • The 2012 WNBA stats should be added sometime in the next week or two.
  • Don't forget that we added a referees section in the offseason. These pages will be updated daily during the season.
  • Thanks to the efforts of Jeff Kramer, we added a contracts section in the offseason. The contract data will be updated on a regular basis during the season. Keep in mind that there will be some delay between when a transaction takes place and when the database is updated, as Jeff often has to chase down contract details.

Well, that's all for now. Please continue to enjoy and support the site, and as always you're feedback is welcome.

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Features: Milestone Watch

Posted by Neil on November 6, 2012

If you're interested in measuring active players' stat totals against historical records or impressive-sounding round numbers, check out our NBA Milestone Watch.

On that page, you can select one of 11 different statistical categories (Games Played, FG, 3-Pointers, FT, Offensive, Defensive, & Total Rebounds, Assists, Steals, Blocks, and Points) and track current players' progress toward certain milestones in that stat. On the left side of the page, you'll see the race for specific round numbers in each category, and on the right side there's a table showing where the top active players rank in NBA history, including how many of that stat they need to accumulate to move up in the all-time rankings.

So go ahead and take a look at it -- it's updated daily along with the rest of our stats, so you'll be able to track your favorite player's assault on history all season long.

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New Front-Page Standings Interface

Posted by Neil on November 2, 2012

Many of you may have noticed that we slightly tweaked our front-page standings table for the 2012-13 season. Now it looks like this:

 

Team W L
SAS (1) F C $ 2 0

What do F, C, and $ mean?

Clicking "F" next to the team abbreviation brings up the team's Franchise Page, which contains a year-by-year summary of the team's entire history.

Clicking "C" will call up the Clubhouse Page for each team. Team clubhouse pages contain a snapshot of where the team is and how they're playing right now, with a calendar-style schedule, team four factors & leaders, and a table of player stats over the team's last 10 games.

Finally, "$" takes you to the team's Contracts Page. These pages list the team's payroll for the current season and the next four seasons, plus descriptions regarding the terms of every player's contract.

We hope these new links will make it even easier for you to navigate our site and get the info you need this season.

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First 2012-13 Update Likely to be Delayed

Posted by Justin Kubatko on October 30, 2012

Due to storm damage at our data provider's ISP, it is unlikely that Basketball-Reference.com will be updated tomorrow morning with the results from opening night. We will try to get these results up as soon as possible. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

Update: It turns out the update was not delayed. The site should now be updated with the results from last night. Please let us know if you find any bugs.

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1992 United States Select Team Roster

Posted by Neil on October 26, 2012

With the Dream Team documentary and book coming out this summer, I've gotten asked several times to provide the roster for the '92 U.S. Select Team that famously defeated the Dream Team before they went to Barcelona for the Olympics. For posterity, here was the roster of that team, which was made up of the top college players of the day:

1992 United States Development Team

Head Coach: George Raveling (University of Southern California)
Assistant Coach: Roy Williams (University of Kansas)
Athletic Trainer: Ron Linfonte (St. John's-NY)
Manager: Dennis Johnson (University of Southern California)

Roster

NBA Career Stats
Player (ncaa stats) Ht Wt Age DOB College G PPG TS% RPG APG S+B/G PER WS48 p(HoF)
Anfernee Hardaway (ncaa) 6-7 195 20 7/18/1971 Memphis 704 15.2 53.5 4.5 5.0 2.0 17.4 0.125 4.8%
Grant Hill (ncaa) 6-8 225 19 10/5/1972 Duke 997 17.1 55.2 6.1 4.2 1.8 19.2 0.140 40.7%
Allan Houston (ncaa) 6-6 200 21 4/20/1971 Tennessee 839 17.3 54.6 2.9 2.4 0.8 14.9 0.094 0.9%
Bobby Hurley (ncaa) 6-0 165 20 6/28/1971 Duke 269 3.8 44.3 1.1 3.3 0.5 8.1 -0.014 0.0%
Jamal Mashburn (ncaa) 6-8 240 19 11/29/1972 Kentucky 611 19.1 50.4 5.4 4.0 1.2 15.7 0.092 2.9%
Eric Montross (ncaa) 7-0 270 20 9/23/1971 UNC 465 4.5 49.7 4.6 0.4 0.9 9.1 0.048 0.0%
Rodney Rogers (ncaa) 6-7 235 21 6/20/1971 Wake 866 10.9 52.7 4.5 2.0 1.5 14.4 0.085 0.0%
Chris Webber (ncaa) 6-9 245 19 3/1/1973 Michigan 831 20.7 51.3 9.8 4.2 2.9 20.9 0.132 74.6%

(Source: USA Basketball)

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BBR: Numerous Additions and Tweaks

Posted by Justin Kubatko on October 5, 2012

Over the last month or so I have made a number of additions and tweaks to Basketball-Reference.com:

  • We now have partial box scores for both the 1982-83 and 1983-84 seasons.
  • Related to the above, we now have partial player game logs and splits for both the 1982-83 and 1983-84 seasons. You may have also noticed that the player's biographical information now appears at the top of both the game logs and splits.
  • On the main player pages, we have split the playoff statistics into four separate tables: totals, per game, per 36 minutes, and advanced.
  • Also on the player pages, the game logs, splits, shooting, and finder links have been moved to the navigation menu that "sticks" to the top of the page as you scroll down. There is also a news link on the navigation menu that leads to an archive of player news. (Note: If you would like to see your blog posts here, please read about how you can add your blog content to our newsfeeds.)
  • An improved navigation menu has been added to the leader pages. This will allow you to quickly switch between season, career, active, yearly, progressive, yearly, and top 10 pages for both the regular season and playoffs for a particular statistic. You can also easily switch statistics by hovering your mouse over the Leader & Records [+] tab and choosing a new statistic.
  • In the playoffs section, partial composite box scores have been added for the 1983 and 1984 playoff series.
  • The All-Star Game section has a new navigation bar on each page. This will allow you to quickly move from box scores to voting results to contest results. We have also added pages with single game and career leaders for the NBA All-Star Game.
  • Although this was announced at the end of August, don't forget that we now have a referees section with referee data for the 1988-89 through 2011-12 seasons.

OK, I think that covers it. As always, please send us your feedback if you have any comments or questions about the site.

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PI Player Streak Finder

Posted by Neil on September 28, 2012

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BBR Player Similarity Scores

Posted by Neil on September 26, 2012

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Our Apologies For the Very Annoying Ads You’ve Seen on our Site

Posted by admin on September 17, 2012

First, let me say the buck stops here and we apologize for the very annoying ads that have been running on some parts of the site over the last 4-5 days. The pages load and then a minute or two later you are blasted with audio that can't be muted. Very annoying. We've taken all of the steps we can to get them taken down short of foregoing all ad revenue. If you want to understand why this happens, please continue reading.

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New Server for Basketball-Reference.com and improved CFB, OLY and CBB speeds

Posted by admin on September 14, 2012

BBR has been moved from it's old server (called mikan internally at s-r hq) and now is running on a new server (named lebron, don't blame me, it was Neil's turn to name the new machine). This is a much better machine with more RAM and CPU's, so things should now run much faster and more smoothly than they have in the past. Please let us know if you come across any quirks or problems.

One benefit of this is that CFB, CBB and Olympics sites no longer have to share a server with basketball, hockey and football, so they should see their performance improve as well.

Wayne Gretzky and Sidney Crosby

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