statsmith

statsmith answers basketball questions with numbers, not opinions. Ask in plain English. What is the longest run of 30-point games? Which team has the best record in games decided by 3 points or fewer? Has anyone averaged a triple-double for a season? Most points in a game by a player aged 40 or older? None of it is looked up. Every answer is computed the moment you ask, from the game logs themselves: 1.7 million player-games and 146,000 team-games, every regular season and playoff game from 1946 to today. Nothing is summarised, estimated or remembered. If the number is not in the logs, statsmith says so rather than guessing. WHAT YOU GET • The exact number, with its standing: #1 of 30 teams, #4 of 5,104 players. • The whole board when the question is a ranking: every row, not a top ten. • A season-by-season line for the subject, so a record has its context. • The other numbers around…