When a team moves, what happens to its history? 🧐 Some take the records with them, others leave the history behind, and sometimes things are reassigned years later. In our newest YouTube video, we untangle some of sports' most confusing franchise histories. Watch now: https://youtu.be/A0FNcgjMjgY
Chris Gehring
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CLE native. Louisville alum. Marketing @sports-reference.com.
It’s here! So many exciting features are going to build off of this functionality this year. Only the beginning. 🚀
Introducing… Sports Reference Search! The launch pad for your Reference journey. A single search bar to take you straight to any player or team in our family of websites. Try it now: https://tinysr.com/4ww8P7h
Good to have the Dutch back on our televisions wrecking our retinas. 🟠 (Orange is my favorite color I’m fine with it)
Box Plus-Minus can be calculated since 1973-74. In those 53 seasons, 4 players with 2,000+ playoff minutes have a career playoff BPM of 2.0 or more than their BPM in reg seasons of playoff years. They are: Isiah Thomas (+2.40) Bryon Russell (+2.38) Hakeem (+2.08) and... OG Anunoby (+2.06)
Wilt Chamberlain's final NBA season was in 1972-73. The next year, the league began officially tracking blocked shots, leaving many to ask, "How many shots did Wilt block?" Our Executive Director of Data, Mike Lynch, set out to find the answer. See his research here: https://youtu.be/9GWKCiRWkvc