Saturday, August 31, 2013

Welcome Season 13/14 - An Announcement From Textbook

Hello everyone,

New basketball season is starting in a few days at Slovenia. I'm sure, even though off season has its own excitements, everyone is excitedly waiting the opening of the season. We have a few announcements before the beginning of the new season.

Last year, we started to working on statistics of basketball as a project. Then we decided to share them on a simple blog. Since, it was our senior year of college and we were dealing with our senior design projects, we couldn't find much time for our analyses. Yet, we shared some of our studies whenever we've found time. It was like beta version of what we capable of doing. We got some great feedback and comments, I've personally thank you for all of them.

Now, this year will be a little different. This summer we beat our brains out to be ready for 2013/14 Season. We both created new formulas and create ways to easily update our own stats game by game and finally we did it. Starting with EuroBasket13, we will update every statistic we come up with daily and make more detailed researches about numbers as a competent of a basketball. After the EuroBasket13 we will be mainly focused on Euroleague as usual, but also we will conduct several analyses about other competitions - like some local competitions - as long as we have the data needed. New approaches to understand the game with numbers are also coming next.

We have a new website now; www.t-book.co  The site is not fully ready yet, there are some imperfections but we will make it ready as soon as possible. We will start updating the site with EuroBasket13. In the first days of the tournament we can face a little difficulties to update stats. We may suffer from lack of time. Because, we'll be living in Rome in following years for educational purposes. As you all can guess, moving from one place to another can be very troubling and moving to another country is much more troubling. However, once we get back on the rails, everything will be much smoother.

Hope to see you very soon...

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