May 09, 2007
ACC Bible
I love ACC basketball. I love statistics. I probably spend an inordinate amount of time gathering, reading and thinking about ACC basketball stats, but I've got nothing on this guy. Michael O'Hara has collected and is publishing a book with box scores and game reports for every ACC men's basketball game ever played.
Wow.
And it's going to be a hell of a book. The whole thing will printed as three volumes, each 8.5 by 11 inches and 800 pages. That's a lot of book.
When I first read the headline and saw what they were talking about, I was really hoping that they were talking about a database, preferably a freely accessible database, but that doesn't appear to be the case. I can dream though.
Comments
Why he would put together something and not put it in a online database is absolutely beyond me.
| scacchoops.com wrote: |
| Why he would put together something and not put it in a online database is absolutely beyond me. |
I'm thinking, and maybe this isn't fair, but given the guy's age, there's a very good chance that he didn't save any of this stuff in a database. I bet he's just got it in text form in a word processing document or something like that.
Building and playing with a database like that is one of my if-I-had-all-the-free-time-in-the-world ideas.
You guys know about Charlie Board's site, right?
http://www.sportsstats.com/bball/
He's got tons of stuff, including box scores up to 2003.
http://www.sportsstats.com/bball/
He's got tons of stuff, including box scores up to 2003.
So no one over 50 uses computers? That is REALLY an unfair thing to say. Tell that to my 87 year old dad, who does a daily newsletter online, and my 81 year old mother-in-law... I could go on, but I will not.
O'Hara put the effort into compiling the information. He is entitled to make money for his work. Once it becomes part of an online database, the income flow could reduce to a trickle.
That said, I would also like to have access to all this info online.
O'Hara put the effort into compiling the information. He is entitled to make money for his work. Once it becomes part of an online database, the income flow could reduce to a trickle.
That said, I would also like to have access to all this info online.
| martin wrote: |
| You guys know about Charlie Board's site, right?
http://www.sportsstats.com/bball/ He's got tons of stuff, including box scores up to 2003. |
Oh hell yes. I use and link to his site all the time. It's a fantastic resource. I just wish he hadn't stopped updating it!
| the rut wrote: |
| So no one over 50 uses computers? That is REALLY an unfair thing to say. Tell that to my 87 year old dad, who does a daily newsletter online, and my 81 year old mother-in-law... I could go on, but I will not. |
Did I say that? I don't think I did. What I said was that I really doubt he built a database out of the data. There's a big difference between putting it all in a Word document and building a proper relational database.
BTW, my 67-year-old mother has a master's degree in computer science. I'm pretty aware of the phenomenon.
| the rut wrote: |
| O'Hara put the effort into compiling the information. He is entitled to make money for his work. Once it becomes part of an online database, the income flow could reduce to a trickle.
That said, I would also like to have access to all this info online. |
Agreed and agreed. Actually, I disagree about the income flow. At the price, those books won't sell too many copies even as it is. The folks who would pay for that are probably people who want it all in hard copy, whether it's available digitally or not.
| Ted in Durham wrote: |
| I keep hoping someone could take over updating Board's site. |
Me too. I've sent him an email to see what he had in mind for the site, but I didn't get a reply.
For those interested that find this, I've compiled an online player database that has all ACC stats since 1954.
http://www.scacchoops.com/forms/PlayerDatabase.asp
Here is an ACC Records page that pulls from the same data...
http://www.scacchoops.com/forms/ACCRecords.asp
http://www.scacchoops.com/forms/PlayerDatabase.asp
Here is an ACC Records page that pulls from the same data...
http://www.scacchoops.com/forms/ACCRecords.asp
| scacchoops.com wrote: |
| For those interested that find this, I've compiled an online player database that has all ACC stats since 1954.
http://www.scacchoops.com/forms/PlayerDatabase.asp Here is an ACC Records page that pulls from the same data... http://www.scacchoops.com/forms/ACCRecords.asp |
That is very cool. I first saw that the other day. If I hadn't retired I'd have written an article about it!
Very nice.
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