Housekeeping: New Stats Feature and Big East HD Boxes

I've added a new pages of stats analysis on the sidebar to the right:

Individual Net Points

It's a work in progress, where I'm trying to summarize the individual net points tables I generate after each game. The goal is to provide a simple way to visually compare offensive, defensive and overall performance of each player per game. Obviously, you can look at the game stats of any individual game if you want to delve into the details.

Let us know what you think:

• a worthwhile effort
• a waste of time, space and electrons
• whaaaa?

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I'm sure I'll regret it, but I'm still planning on posting HD Box scores for all available Big East conf. games. At this point, however, there are a number of schools that are not posting complete play-by-play data, so this may be limited.

Here's a summary of what I've found so far (table edited, thanks to info from FriarBlog.com in comments):

School           PBP Good?      Comments
Cincinnati        Maybe         No substitution data at team site; StatSheet.com?
Connecticut        Yes          Only pbp & final box score; should be able to handle this
DePaul             No           No substitution data
Georgetown         Yes          Preferred style
Louisville         Yes          Same format as G'town
Marquette          Yes          Same format as G'town
Notre Dame         Yes          No 2nd half box score; can handle this
Pittsburgh         Yes          No 2nd half box score; can handle this
Providence        Maybe         Box score only at team site; StatSheet.com?
Rutgers           Maybe         Box score only at team site; StatSheet.com?
St. John's         No           Box score only
Seton Hall         Yes          Only pbp & final box score; should be able to handle this
South Florida      Yes          Only pbp & final box score; should be able to handle this
Syracuse           No           No substitution data
Villanova          Yes          Same format as G'town
West Virginia     Maybe         Box score only at team site; StatSheet.com?

As I understand it, the home team will determine what kind of game data is available, so right now only 9 teams will put out play-by-play that I can process. With StatSheet.com, that would be 13 teams, with only DePaul, St. John's and Syracuse missing.

I'll send off an e-mail to each school's S.I.D. where the game data is lacking, and maybe I can fill in some of these gaps.

I don't want to clutter up the front page with box scores that may not be of great interest to my reader (e.g. DePaul v. South Florida), so I'll put a link on the right side bar to a master page with links to all teams, and then sub-pages for each team. I'll try to get that set up tonight.

Let me know if you'd like to see something that I'm not providing, either in the HD box score or in how it's presented here. And please be patient if a game isn't posted right away - real life duties will likely take up most of my time on-and-off during the rest of the season.