Site Features: Check Out the Play Index!
Posted by Neil Paine on March 30, 2011
With the playoffs rapidly approaching, it's time for another reminder to check out the Basketball-Reference Play Index. In case you don't already know about the PI, it's a set of research tools that allow you to create customizable queries on our database, save the results, and share them with others. With the PI, you can:
- Use the Player Season Finder to search through all NBA, ABA, & BAA players' regular season and playoff statistics for performances that match your criteria.
- Use the Player Game Finder to search through NBA players' regular season and playoff game logs (since 1985-86) for games matching your criteria.
- Use the Head-to-Head Finder to search for games in which two selected players played against each other.
- Search for player and team consecutive-game streaks that match your criteria using the Streak Finders.
- Search for team performances that meet your criteria with the Team Season Finder and Team Game Finder.
- Use the Draft Finder to search through every NBA/BAA draft for picks that match your criteria.
- Use the Player Comparison Finder to compare the stats of up to four players through (or in) a given season.
And best of all, these features are 100% free to use!
So go ahead, give them a try, and you'll wonder how you ever got along without them.
March 30th, 2011 at 3:13 pm
IS there a way to search for players who have the most 20+,10+ seasons or find guys who had 5 straight 25+ PPG seasons?
March 30th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
You should be able to sort through game score. I think that'd be neat.
March 30th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Pm, as far as I can tell, you can get halfway there on your first request:
http://bkref.com/tiny/P6Q31
That's every 20+ PPG / 10+ RPG season sorted by name. You can kinda eyeball it, or count it by hand. Otherwise, I don't think it's possible to sort by the # of seasons.
March 31st, 2011 at 10:43 am
Maybe I'm late to the game, but I love the player vs player stats.
I was really shocked at David Robinson vs Hakeem.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/h2h_finder.cgi?request=1&p1=robinda01&p2=olajuha01
I had expected Hakeem to have a clear edge, but in my opinion it really swings the other way.
March 31st, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Love the play index! My top suggested improvements:
-Allow the player comparison finder to compare ranges of seasons, instead of years 1-x of a players career, to facilitate early and late career comparisons.
-Have an option to include playoff games in the head-to-head finder! This would be much more revealing than reg season matchups for certain players (especially Dream vs Admiral!).
@MikeF: Hakeem and the Rockets declined big-time after 1998; this goes to show that a date-range option would be nice for the head-to-head finder as well.
March 31st, 2011 at 4:16 pm
I wish the Draft Finder would sort by more than Games, per game averages, and shooting %.
How about career minutes, rebounds, points, etc?
It would be nice if regular season and playoff 'season' could be combined in the Season Finder.
This seems to be a bug: In Player Season Finder, selecting a range of Seasons, select a season in the From box, and the word 'to' , we get a 2-year interval rather than just that one season.
April 5th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
What an incredible resource. My favorites are the Player Comparison Finder and the Head-To-Head Finder. Thanks again for such an incredible resource and website. I've bookmarked this page for future reference.