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

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:13:48 +0000

The tools are awesome. You guys CANNOT be thanked enough for organizing this stuff. INCREDIBLE!

But I am still DYING waiting for the Head to Head Finder/tool to be expanded to seasons prior to 1987!!

Gentlemen, that thing is GOLD--------when do you expect to go further back in time with it?

By: CE

CE — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:55:42 +0000

I love these tools, and use them all the time. Yesterday I was trying to search for championship teams by Free Throw pct%, it would be awesome if there was an option in the Team Season Finder to filter by championship teams. The question was, are there any poor free throw shooting championship teams? The Miami Heat were bad in 06, but any Shaq team is bound to be bad.

By: Greyberger

Greyberger — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:34:48 +0000

Just posted a Spurs-centric piece using the play finder a bunch of times.

By: Jared Ras

Jared Ras — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:54:59 +0000

@Jay - I knew I saw that somewhere, thanks! Is there any way to do that for the Player Game finder (i.e. rookies with 50-point games)?

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:51:22 +0000

Jared, you can select specific years of a player's career as well as height, but not weight. See here:

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi

One of my favorite stat lines using the play index:

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/tiny.cgi?id=61VC9

Dirk will always be under appreciated.

By: Gautam

Gautam — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:27:38 +0000

@Jared - Thanks!

By: Jared Ras

Jared Ras — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:01:25 +0000

@Gautam (#3): 707 games. Do http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/pgl_finder.cgi?player=duncati01, MP > 0, then sort by W/L and count the Ws.

Another suggestion, is there a query for "year of player's career" (first, last, 10th, etc.) or player height/weight (under 6'0", 7'0" or taller, between 6'4" and 6'8", etc.)?

By: P Middy

P Middy — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:51:06 +0000

Word.

Ran a fantasy league one year "on paper" (excel) off the Season Finder. The game finder and logs are amazing too. Hard to find a better resource on teh webs

By: Mike G

Mike G — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:25:03 +0000

I love the Play Index feature; especially the Player Season Finder. Oftentimes, I want to sort players in a single season. I've recently discovered that when the (red) link "to" is clicked, the end season becomes the beginning season. Thus, a single season is easily selected. About half the time I'm sorting within a season, it's for the current (or most recent) season. How about a 'current season' link? Another feature, the Player Comparison Finder, is very nice. It selects up to 4 players; a single season, or a whole career through any given season. How hard would it be to have the option of selecting a start year and an end year for selection? For example, age 24 through age 28.

By: Gautam

Gautam — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:55:27 +0000

I saw that Duncan played his 1000th regular season game. How can I find out how many of those games he won?