Today, I decided to dive into tracking some basketball stats, specifically focusing on a player named Austin and his “box stats.” It wasn’t anything too fancy, just something I wanted to try out for fun.
Getting Started
First things first, I needed to figure out what exactly I was going to track. “Box stats” usually means the basic stuff you see in a basketball box score.
- Points: How many points did he score?
- Rebounds: How many times did he grab the ball after a missed shot?
- Assists:How many times did his passes lead directly to a teammate scoring?
- Steals:How many times did take the ball from opposite player?
- Blocks:How many times did block the opposite player’s shot?
Okay, I thought, that seems manageable.
The Hard Way
I started by, and I am not kidding, I watched the game, with a piece of paper, and I tried to write his stats * was so bad for * fast, and missed a lot.
Finding Tools
Then it hit me: there’s gotta be an easier way. I mean, people track this stuff all the time, right? So, I did a quick search. I typed in something like “track basketball stats” and, boom, tons of stuff popped up. Turns out, there are apps for this!I download some of them,and finally choose one which is simple and useful for me.
Tracking the Game
The next game, I used the * was so easy to track the stats that I * app did all the work! It even had little charts and graphs.
The Results
After the game * was cool to see all the numbers laid out like that. And, honestly, it made watching the game even more interesting because I was paying attention to different things.
So, that’s it. That’s how I, a regular person with no special skills, started tracking basketball box stats. It’s not rocket science, and it’s actually kind of * you’re a basketball fan, I’d say give it a try!
