Thank you, Dick Pfander
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:45 pm
Cool article about the guy who's singlehandedly responsible for getting a huge number of old box scores to basketballreference.com and thereby giving a lot of useful data to the masses.
http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-trian ... -box-score
The level of lifelong dedication on his part is pretty remarkable.
http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-trian ... -box-score
Last week, Justin Kubatko made an announcement that, on the first reading, didn’t make much sense. Kubatko, of Basketball-Reference.com, wrote that the site now had the box scores for every game in NBA history — from Wilt’s 100-point game, to when Havlicek stole the ball, to everything in between. Visitors to the site could search for every game from 1946-47 to the present day through its database.
The question that beckoned was: “How?”
“A few years ago, someone had pointed us in the direction of this guy named Dick Pfander, who lives in Michigan,” Kubatko said. “They said, ‘You’ve got to get in touch with him. He’s undertaking a personal project going through old microfilm and making scans of every box score in NBA history.’ Of course, we were intrigued by that.”
The level of lifelong dedication on his part is pretty remarkable.
