Introducing StatSheet.com: Preseason Edition
Published October 2, 2007 by Robbie
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I’m a college basketball fanatic. I’ve been a North Carolina Tar Heels fan for as long as I can remember. Last year when I started thinking about interesting websites I could build, college basketball bubbled up as a potential topic. Currently, most of the big sports websites do a rather poor job of catering to fans that have a hunger for stats. Most existing sites use the same text-based, current season only stats as everyone else. We’re taking a fresh approach at StatSheet.com. Since I’m such a big college basketball fan (and blogger), I figured we’d develop a website that catered to my needs to start with.
We’re planning the first official release during Midnight Madness. This will include all the base features to view historical stats, compare players, coaches, teams, and conferences, graphical charts which can be embedded in your website, and much more. I’m announcing it now because we have enough completed to start getting feedback. Some pages will be rather empty, that’s ok, we’re still working on it. But we are interested in any general feedback about usability, functionality, and features you’d like to see added.
After the first release we plan a follow on release in time for the beginning of the season. This will include features that allow users of the site to contribute their insights and knowledge. That’s all I’ll say for now!
It has been a blast developing the site so far. Stay tuned for more!
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It’s about time there’s an attractive and easy to use site offering stats beyond box scores! I’ve never understood why this factual, public domain data isn’t accessible to the “public”. Great work.
I was hoping you could clarify some things. I looked into the terms of use to see if there was a data API being offered, but only found a lot of legalese. I’m no lawyer so I’m probably missing something, but it appeared that you are copyrighting all the content that isn’t user submitted. Does that include, for example, content such as Tyler Hansbrough’s stats for 2006-2007:
“29.9 MPG, 18.4 PPG, 1.2 APG, 7.9 RPG”
Or do I really need to ask permission to use this information when I blog about UNC?
Jack
Hi Jack,
Thanks for the feedback. Great question. One of the reasons I’m developing the site is so bloggers and website owners can integrate stats into their website. Take a look at the tools section: http://statsheet.com/tools
However, I’m not allowed to provide data “APIs” because my stats provider won’t allow it. I’d be competing with them at that point.
I would love it if college basketball stats were public domain, but currently to get quality, detailed stats you have to pay quite a bit for them. You can definitely reuse snippets like “29.9 MPG, 18.4 PPG, 1.2 APG, 7.9 RPG” as long as you aren’t doing so for commercial or competitive reasons. I’d appreciate a link back to StatSheet.com if you do use some of our data.
Keep an eye on my UNC blog http://uncbasketballupdate for examples of how I integrate with StatSheet.com.