New Tool: New Coach Contract Tool

Dear basketsim managers,

There is a new tool on bsgoodies: New Coach Contract Tool.

This tool helps you to find, when you renew the contract of your coach, what is the salary for which he will ask zero sign-on money. It is proved that in this case the coach for the following year (sign-on + salary*19) is minimum.

Moreover, if you press the "Plot total value" you will see a google plot showing the overall cast (sign-on value + salary*19) when varying the proposed salary on the x-axis.

Enjoy!
Manos

Stats Categories

Hi all,

In this post I would like to say a few words about the different stats categories that are presented by the "enhanced player stats" feature available by Basketfox by BSGoodies.

The first picture shows the stats they way they are presented by the game. The next picture shows the stats enhanced by Basketfox. There is a clear one-to-one corresponding for most of the lines and in parenthesis the averages per 40 minutes are shown. Moreover there are some additional summarizing statistics.

• PPG = points per gameThe first picture shows the stats they way they are presented by the game.The next picture shows the stats enhanced by Basketfox. There is a clear one-to-one corresponding for most of the lines and in parenthesis the averages per 40 minutes are shown. Moreover there are some additional summarizing statistics.
• 2P: for two pointers we show first the percentage and then the average shots made over shots attempted, and then the total number of 2p shots made and attempted. Please note the difference between basketsim: we show shots made (and attempted), not points made.
• FT: similarly for free throws.
• 3P: similarly for three pointers.
• RPG = rebounds per game
• DRPG = defensive rebounds per game
• ORPG = offensive rebounds per game
• BPG = blocks per game
• APG = assists per game
• SPG = steals per game
• FPG = fouls per game
• TPG = turnovers per game
• Rating PG is self explanatory and in parenthesis we show the average per 40 minutes.
• A/T is the Assists over Turnovers ratio (i.e., how many assists dished per turnover committed)
• S/T is the Steals over Turnovers ratio (i.e., how many stolen balls per turnover committed)
• (B+A+S)/T is the Blocks plus Assists plus Steals over Turnovers ratio (i.e., how many useful actions - steals, blocks, assists - per turnover committed)
• TENDEX is a popular basketball metric which calculates the efficiency of a player by dividing TENDEX points by minutes played, where TENDEX points are equal to Points-Missed Shots(both 2P and 3P)-Missed Free Throws+Assists+Blocks+Steals-Turnovers. So the formula is (Points-Missed Shots-Missed Free Throws+Assists+Blocks+Steals-Turnovers)/Minutes Played. It is considered that a value of 1 is for a "perfect" player but higher values are actually possible. In general a value 0.5 is for a very good guard and 0.7 for a very good forward/center. You can find more details in GalanisSportsData website (link deactivated temporarily).
• EconP40M = Economy per 40 minutes, where economy is the useful actions calculated as Assists+Steals+Blocks-Turnovers and then calculate the average per 40 minutes.

Best,
BSGoodies

Basketfox for other borwsers

Hi all,

I want to share a quick word about porting Basketfox to other browsers. While this seems like an exciting new project, it seems that there is less interest in the community. In fact only 8% of the people would use Basketfox for Safari or Opera should it be available. While people are mostly happy with having Basketfox for Chrome (55% of the users use the Chrome version) and Firefox (51% of the users use the Firefox version).

*Note that the percentages do not add up to 100% but more because in the poll one could vote any number of browser that he intends to use with Basketfox and apparently there are some people who use Basketfox both in Firefox and Chrome (maybe a work/home situation or a second computer like girlfriends's computer and so on!)

So, porting Basketfox to other browsers is not a top priority. Instead we focus on providing all the possible features that BSGoodies and the community can think of and support the existing versions.

Moreover, we have started contemplating about a mobile version of the game or of Basketfox. This needs much discussion with the game admin so it is - for now - just a thought!

All the best,
Enjoy basketsim!
Enjoy basketfox!

Latest Basketfox in more than 1500 browsers!

Hi all,

I am just excited to see that the latest version of Basketfox is installed in more than 1500 browsers!!

Moreover, let me share some statistics about the blog and the project code page.

The Basketfox project page (http://code.google.com/p/basketfox/) receives 25-50 unique visits every day, 15% of them come from Greece, 8% from USA, 6.9% from Slovenia, 6.2% from Italy, 5.1% from Serbia, 4.9% from Poland, 4.3% from Romania, 4% from Indonesia, 3.7% from Spain, 3.2% from France and the list continues. Regarding cities, Athens has the most visits, with Bucharest being second, Ljubljana third and  Belgrade, Riga, Dumai, Zagreb, Milan and Maribor filling the first 9 positions. Out of these visits 59% come from Firefox, 37.5% from Chrome and only 1.7% from IE, 1.4% from Safari and 0.3% from Opera and Opera Mini. Finally, regarding operating system 91.4% of the visitors use Windows, 4.9% Mac, 1.5% Android, 1.4% Linux and 0.6% iOS.

The BSGoodies blog (http://bsgoodies.blogspot.com) receives 50-100 unique visits every day, 12.9% of them come from Greece, 8.6% from Slovenia, 7.3% from USA, 6.4% from Italy, 5.5% from Poland, 4.4% from Serbia  4.1% from Spain, 3.6% from Portugal, 3.5% from Bosnia, 3.4% from Romania and the list continues. Regarding cities, Athens has the most visits, with Ljubljana being second,  Belgrade third and Riga, Zagreb, Thessaloniki, Brno, Vilnius and Bucharest filling the first 9 positions. Out of these visits 51.7% come from Firefox, 42% from Chrome, 3.5% from IE, and only 1.1% from Safari, 1% from Opera and Opera Mini, 0.6% from Android Browser and 0.05% from IE with Chrome Frame and RockMelt. Finally, regarding operating system 94.3% of the visitors use Windows, 2.4% Mac, 1.2% Android, 1.1% Linux and 0.4% iOS.

Thanks for using and downloading Baketfox!