Okay, so, “LeBronTo Years.” Sounds kinda weird, right? But I got hooked on this idea of tracking how many “LeBron years” a player has played. Basically, it’s just how many years they’ve been in the NBA. Simple, but I wanted to see it all laid out.
First, I grabbed a list of players. Just a basic list, nothing fancy. I just copied and pasted it from somewhere, can’t even remember where now.
Getting the Data Ready
Then, I opened up a plain text editor. Yep, just a basic one. I pasted the player list in there. Then I manually add years for players, it’s just numbers so, quite easy, right?
- Player A, 10
- Player B, 5
- Player C, 18
I went through the list, player by player, and added their years in the NBA next to their name. Took a while, some of the players have the year information I want, so I opened up a new browser tab and typed in the player’s name and “years in NBA”. And found it and typed that year number in my text editor file
Seeing the “LeBron Years”
Once I had all the years, I just looked at the list. It was cool to see who had the most “LeBron years” and who was just starting out. Some guys, wow, they’ve been around forever! Others, they’re just babies in the league.
It’s not rocket science, I know. But it was a fun little project, and it gave me a different way to think about NBA players and their careers. I might even try to make a simple chart or something with this data later. Who knows!
