Comments on: Site Features: Check Out the Play Index!

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:31:13 +0000

Some of the new features on the searches are fantastic.

For instance, we can now see that Wilt Chamberlain was the tallest player in the league for virtually his entire career, with of course a young Kareem (Lew Alcindor) coming into the league at the very tail end of Wilt's career. We can also see the trend that teams started having towards drafting seven footers in the late '60s, perhaps with the hopes of creating another Wilt (which failed) or just for the purposes of trying to slow Wilt down, although of course Wilt also elected to slow himself down by that time. We can also see that he was the tallest player in NBA history at the time of his debut. It kind of reinforces the notion that his strongest competition was Bill Russell, Walt Bellamy, Nate Thurmond (his teammate for a while), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

By: Justin Kubatko

Justin Kubatko — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:37:57 +0000

Stephg wrote: I can no longer search for teams, i.e. "1993 Mavs". It's now only a player name search. I can't see where to search for teams. What tomfoolery is this? Sorry, that should be working again.

By: Imadogg

Imadogg — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:39:02 +0000

Don't know what I'd do without this site.

In player season finder, under qualified for, MP/G Leaderboard is posted twice just letting you know.

And in player comparison, when you choose combined seasons, it adds up the rookie season up to the one you choose. You should be able to choose which season to start/end at (for example if I wanna calculate Kobe post-Shaq til now).

Keep up the great work

By: stephg

stephg — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:43:55 +0000

I can no longer search for teams, i.e. "1993 Mavs". It's now only a player name search. I can't see where to search for teams. What tomfoolery is this?

By: Salvo

Salvo — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:26:19 +0000

Hi, Neil Paine! I find the "Play Index" section very useful, so I want to give you a suggestion to improve the researches: Could you insert in "Player Game Finder" a form with Year(of player's career) and his shortcuts -Any, Rookie, First 5, Last 5- like that in "Player Season Finder"? Thanks.

By: Jason J

Jason J — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:07:25 +0000

I've probably spent more time tooling around on the play index here (and the previous names it's been called) than any other site on Al Gore's world wide webosphere.

By: A.S.

A.S. — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:39:43 +0000

These are awesome tools, but I find the Player Season Finder to be a bit limited. For example, the other day, I was thinking of trying to figure out which (good) players regressed the most from last year (that is, have played the poorest this season as compared to last season). I'm thinking of Troy Murphy - was good last year, terrible this year. So I thought I'd try to use Player Season Finder. What I'd like to do is: PER(last season) - PER(this season), for all players who were PER > 15 last year. Can't do it with Player Season Finder...