NBA Fans Treated To Unlimited Stat Access

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has launched a new digital platform, which aims to provide fans with previously unprecedented levels of access to the statistics behind the sport with the development of NBA.com/Stats.

Powered by software giant SAP, the real-time platform is free to all fans and media, and will feature the league’s entire official statistics history – including Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game in 1962 and Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game in 2006 – previously only available to league and NBA team personnel.

The news follows the multi-year marketing partnership formed back in July, which saw the SAP become the official business analytics software partner of the NBA. 

Content will include every NBA box score dating back to the inaugural 1946-47 season, advanced shooting charts, top lineup combinations, in-depth statistical breakdowns and pages for every NBA player in the league’s history. 

NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver said: ‘NBA.com/Stats provides our fans and media with the definitive tool for accessing our entire up-to-the-minute history of official NBA statistical information.’ 

‘Working together with SAP, a global leader in providing innovative software solutions, this groundbreaking offering brings big data to the NBA allowing fans, broadcasters and the media to run unlimited statistical breakdowns of NBA players and teams, past or present.’

Steve Peck, senior vice-president of global strategic initiatives for SAP, added: ‘Sports fans have a passion for statistics because it brings them closer to the game, their favourite teams and players. The new NBA.com/Stats goes beyond the numbers by offering a dynamic, comprehensive and statistical experience like never before.’ 

‘As a proven business platform, SAP HANA will help the NBA provide an experience that allows millions of fans to find insights in the numbers that had previously only been available to NBA teams and selected members of the media.’