We have attended several columns of statistics to our team Schedule & Results pages for 2015-16. We have a page like this for each team, showing their results, as well as their upcoming games. As you can see on the page linked to, we've added a column showing shots, power play goals, power play opportunities, short-handed goals and penalty minutes for both teams. Additionally, attendance and length of game were recently added. The columns are all sortable by clicking in the top row, so you can easily find team season highs (or lows) in each statistic.

We have made a couple of additional statistics available for search in the Player Streak Finder in the Play Index. You can now search for longest streaks of times sacked (since 1981) and for streaks by completion percentage. Enjoy!

As we continue to work our way back on digitizing player statistics for old college basketball seasons, we are happy to announce the player stats for the 1994-95 season are now live on the site. You can see player leaders for the season here. Notably, Kurt Thomas became the third player to lead NCAA D-I in scoring and rebounding in the same season (28.9 PPG and 14.6 RPG). Here's the team stats page for UCLA, as the Bruins won their record 11th (and most recent) national championship.

The new season of statistics has also been synced into the Player Season Finder tool, so you can now make customized searches for player stats all the way back to 1994-95 (though we cannot yet calculate Win Shares for 1994-95). Here's a few examples:

• Since 1994-95, Kurt Thomas's 14.6 RPG in have been surpassed by only Tim Duncan's 14.7 RPG in 1996-97.
• Nelson Haggerty's 10.1 APG in 1994-95 are the most any player has averaged in a season over this span.
• Allen Iverson is the only player in our data to have over 200 combined steals in his freshman and sophomore seasons (The Answer was a freshman in 1994-95).
• Bonzi Wells's game was as unique as his name.

In the coming months and years, we hope to continue to add past seasons of player statistics, as well as team statistics.

Last month, we added full box scores for the 1983 & 1984 NBA Playoffs. Now, once again thanks to the help of Sean Burrill, we have added full box scores and game logs for the 1983-84 & 1984-85 NBA seasons. This means we now have a full box score for Michael Jordan's NBA debut (in which he was only the fourth leading scorer for his own team!). We also now have full game logs for Jordan's rookie season. This means we now have a stat line for pretty much every game Michael Jordan has played in since high school. Please let us know if you have any of his Tune Squad box scores, though.

We have also synched these box scores into the Play Index, allowing for searches further back in many non-scoring categories in the Player Game Finder and the Team Game Finder. Some sample searches now possible:

• Moses Malone's 27 rebounds against the Celtics on March 25, 1984 were the most in a single game in 1983-84.
• The most assists in a game in 1984-85 was 25 by Isiah Thomas on Feb. 13, 1985 against the Mavericks (led by 40 points from Thomas's friend Mark Aguirre).
• Ralph Sampson, who debuted in 1983-84, double-doubled in his first nine career games. Shaquille O'Neal is the only player to match that feat since.

These new box scores also add new seasons available for search in the Player Streak Finder, the Team Streak Finder, and the Head2Head Finder. For instance, we now have full game logs and stats for every matchup between 1984 Draft class rivals Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley.

Additionally, we have extended the single-game leaders links in our Leaders Index back to 1983-84. Kevin McHale's 56-point effort on March 3, 1985 now ranks as the fifth-best Game Score in our database. And we also now have the full Celtics box score from 9 days later, when Larry Bird one-upped his teammate with a 60-point game.

As a reminder, we do have every box score in NBA history on the site. They can be accessed via this menu. However, many of the older box scores are limited to only player FGs, FTs, and points. With our update, the boxes are complete back to 1983-84, though.

We also want to mention that there are a handful of games for 1983-84 and 1984-85 for which we are missing a few statistical categories. If you are able to help fill in any of the blanks, please let us know.

Here are the games with some missing columns of data (games with strike-throughs have been completed since the original blog post):

• Lakers at Blazers on November 19, 1983
• Nets at Spurs on November 19, 1983
• Bulls at Jazz on November 23, 1983
• Warriors at Clippers on December 2, 1983
• Pistons at Blazers on December 9, 1983
• Pistons at Bullets on January 3, 1984
• Spurs at Lakers on January 6, 1984
• Suns at Kings on January 7, 1984
• Mavericks at Rockets on February 2, 1984
• Nets at Bulls on February 4, 1984
• Clippers at Cavaliers on February 4, 1984
• Suns at Warriors on February 4, 1984
• Knicks at Rockets on February 4, 1984
• Bucks at Jazz on February 4, 1984
• Pacers at Bullets on February 4, 1984
• 76ers at Hawks on February 4, 1984
• Suns at Rockets on February 18, 1984
• Spurs at Sonics on March 16, 1984
• Warriors at Blazers on March 17, 1984
• Celtics at Knicks on March 22, 1984
• Hawks at Pacers on April 11, 1984
• Jazz at Suns on May 10, 1984
• Suns at Warriors on October 26, 1984
• Jazz at Warriors on November 3, 1984
• Nuggets at Rockets on February 2, 1985
• Clippers at Pistons on March 11, 1985
• Suns at Warriors on March 23, 1985
• Kings at Warriors on April 6, 1985

We have added NHL Rookies of the Month back to the 2005-06 season. If you have this info for any older seasons, please let us know. The Rookie of the Month winners can be accessed via our larger Awards section.

We made a small addition to the NFL Franchise Index Pages. The 7th column is now for division finish, so ,at a glance, you can see where a team finished with its division in every season. The full franchise history for every team can be accessed by clicking on any team name in this index.

Perhaps you noticed the recent addition of a "starters" tab on all team pages since 2010-11. Clicking on this tab will take you to a team game log where you can see the 5 starters used in each game. Additionally, at the bottom of the page, you will find a list of every starting lineup combo used, as well as the team's record in games started by that lineup.  So you can see, for instance, that all four Michigan State losses have come with rarely used lineups, with Denzel Valentine and Tum Tum Nairn, most notably, missing some action. While this data is interesting for Michigan State, it's a little more boring for top-ranked Oklahoma, which has used the same starting lineup in every game this season.

Earlier this month, we added the ability to search for safeties to the Team Game Finder in the Play Index.

We've now added the ability to search for opponent's safeties, as well as opponent FG & PAT statistics.

So we can now say things, such as:

• The 2015 Dolphins were nearly the 2nd team since 1940 to have 5 safeties scored against them.
• Opponents of the 2015 Eagles were 27-for-27 on field goals. That's the best kicking performance by opponents of a single team on record.

On the eve of Brady-Manning XVII, perhaps the last matchup ever in this historic rivalry, we wanted to take a moment to collect some of the notable facts and stats from one of the defining matchups of the last 15 years of football. Read the rest of this entry

Did you write or read an excellent story, research paper, or book about baseball in 2015? If so, the window is open to submit that piece for consideration for this year's Greg Spira Baseball Research Award! Click this link to submit a piece for consideration.

The nomination period opened today, January 21, and will run through March 6. Any piece containing original analysis or research that was published between January 16, 2015 and January 15, 2016 is eligible to be nominated. Articles, papers, and books eligible for consideration include those published in print or in e-books, those published or posted on the Web, academic papers or dissertations, and papers presented at professional or public conferences. Winning entries must display innovative analysis or reasoning by an author who was 30 years old or younger at the time of the entry’s publication.

Anyone is free to nominate a qualifying piece for the Spira, and authors may self-nominate, but note that only one entry per author will be considered. The winner of the Spira Award will receive a cash prize of $1,000, with additional awards of $200 for second place and $100 for third place.

For more information on the Greg Spira Baseball Research Award, go to SpiraAward.org.