Hands down my favorite basketball site to visit. No, I'm not saying stats are the be-all end-all of player evaluation, but it's still an awesome tool. Compared to other sites like espn or yahoo, basketball-reference is simply much more comprehensive. It gives perhaps as complete a picture of a player/team as a site can give, assuming you can interpret it correctly. The only thing lacking would be a full scouting report from NBA-level scouts. But alas, those are hardly available to us normal fans.
i love the site. the amount of stuff you can look up on there is just incredible. normal stats, advanced stats, playoff stats, advanced playoff stats, leaderboard appearances, etc. the "play index" where you can search all sorts of player and team stats can have you looking up crap forever. maybe someone knows why, but their game logs for the regular season only go back to 86-87 so you can only search game stats back to that point and for the playoffs i think it only goes back to the 91 playoffs. of course the playoffs used to only go back to 96 i think so at least the championship runs finally made it in there. if they'd at least get the regular season stats back to 84-85 then they would finally have all of hakeem and jordan's careers.
You can sponsor a Rockets player page on that site for like $10 a year, just make sure to give a matching donation to Clutchfans
I love basketball-reference to death, but I think there sister site (or former something), http://www.databasebasketball.com/ (boxscores only, 91-92, but does give an in-dept break down of how each team did against one another during the season, split stats) has beat in certain extensive numbers. http://www.databasefootball.com/ (boxscores, back to 1983 and player statistics back 1930s) http://www.databasebaseball.com/ http://www.databasefootball.com/College/ http://www.databasegolf.com/
The player pages have a lot of useful advanced stats, but I also suggest checking out the blog on the site as well, where they post articles about various statistical analysis and other stuff. Overall an indispensable site to any basketball fan.
Suppose I want to know which 2003-04 Rocket had how many points/rebounds/assists against the Mavericks; other than doing game logs for 18 different players and adding the numbers, is there a quicker way to compile the data? I checked "player season finder" but it doesn't allow me to select the opponents.
It would require manually entering in box score data from newspaper articles. Boxscores back to 84-85 aren't available online for the whole league, to my knowledge.
You means something like: Print all 03-04 Rocket players for which points+rebounds+assists > N in games versus Mavericks? There's no way to enter a query like that. You can, however, enter this: Print all 03-04 Rockets player boxscores for which points>0, rebounds>0, assists>0, in games versus Mavericks. http://www.basketball-reference.com...c3val=0&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&order_by=pts Then, C&P the output into a spreadsheet. Create a column pts+reb+ast. And sort. That wouldn't take more than a minute or so, if you know how to use Excel (for instance).
No I mean a table listing the stat totals & averages for all players against the Mavericks that season. Like what basketball-reference.com has for the entire season, entire playoffs etc. I was wondering if there's another site that can do that. But thanks for your help.
www.hoopsstats.com Doesn't reach back very far, but that is another incredible site for contemporary statistics.
That information can be found from the splits (every player page has a split drop down in which you can select a season). Example: Yao Ming, 02-03: http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/mingya01/splits/2003/ Note that form of that URL. Its always location of the player page + /splits/[year].
All of the Sports Reference sites are great. Baseball-Reference is the best because baseball has the most comprehensive stats, but the others are as good as the data allow. Kudos to Sean Forman.
