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The Basketball Game Box Score

Uploaded: 30/03/02
Updated: 01/04/06

A Box Score summarizes a Basketball game, and displays all of the major statistical categories for every player who entered the game.
Box Score stats are those stats that are officially recorded for each game and reported in the box score.

The Basketball Box Score Stats

by Mario Sebastiani, Spain - March 30, 2002

A Basketball game Box Score summarizes a Basketball game, and displays all of the major statistical categories for every player who entered the game.
Here we add to those stats that are officially recorded and reported for each game, our interpretation and vision of a complete box score.

Panathinaikos BSA Athens  74  vs.  66  Efes Pilsen Istanbul
          (23 - 10;  15 - 13;  15 - 25;  21 - 18)

Only after (but not instead of!) this basic information you can give an additional one: accumulative score at each 5 minutes, including after each quarter and half.

                    5'  Q1  15'  Q2  25'  Q3  30'  Q4  OT  
Panathinaikos       9   23  30   38  45   53  61   74 
Efes Pilsen         7   10  16   23  34   48  56   66

At the top of each team's box, the name of the coach and the Time Outs required.
The starting lineups for each team must be listed first in the following order by position: small forward, power forward, center, second guard and point guard.

     PLAYER      POS
     ANDERSON     SF
     MASSENBURG   PF
     TABAK        C
     ROBERTSON    SG
     STOUDAMIRE   PG

Substitute players are listed in the order in which they enter the game. Players who do not play in the game must be listed as DNP to the right of a player's name to indicate that he Did Not Play.

     PARISH     DNP - Coach's Decision
     WILLIAMS   DNP - Injured

The last line of the list is reserved for a "Team Player"; or "Team/Coach", which will receive the "team stats" as team rebounds, technical fouls to the bench or the coach, team steals o turnovers. See  Stats Glossary for references.

The columns of statistical totals for each player are displayed below: the heading abbreviations are defined in the next article: Box Score Terminology.

PLAYER                              REBOUNDS:      Offensive
POSITION                                           Defensive 
MINUTES PLAYED                                     Totals
PERSONAL FOULS: Made                ASSISTS:       Made
                Received                           Received
FIELD GOALS:    Made/Attempts       TURNOVERS
                Percentage          STEALS
2 POINTS:       Made/Attempts       BLOCKS:         Made
                Percentage                          Received 
3 POINTS:       Made/Attempts       DUNKS
                Percentage          POINTS                         
FREE THROWS:    Made/Attempts       TECHNICAL FOULS
                Percentage          FLAGRANT FOULS

A team rebound is recorded when a team gains possession as a result of a missed shot but no one player gains control of the ball.

Below of the game box score must be listed the following information:

                          Panathinaikos          Efes Pilsen
Biggest Scoring Run:         8 (2:33)              9 (2:22) 
Biggest lead:                19                    2
Lead Changes:               6                     4
Start Five Scoring:          54 - 72%              60 - 90%
Bench Scoring:               20 - 28%              6  - 10%
Points in the Paint:         12                    16  
Points Off Turnovers:        21                    8
Fast Break Points:           23                    6
Fouled out:                  1 (Rebraca)           1 (Onan) 
Technical:                  0                     0

And finally, the rankings: a good box score may include ranking stats and ratio stats, as the following (see  Stats Glossary for references): Tendex; eBA (Efficiency Basketball Analysis); OER (Offensive Efficiency Rate); Off.Rebs/Missed FG; Def.Rebs/Opp.Misses FG; Assists/Turnovers; Pts./Min.; Pts./40'; and much others.
This ranking and ratio stats have a tremendous appeal to coaches and are very useful, specially at half time recess, but only if they are based on absolutely true statistical data.

In our opinion, if there are a simple doubt about the data, its preferable not to use this type of stats for a box score at a live game.
In another words, Ranking or Ratio Stats must be applied only at the post game analysis work, particularly after the Video Analysis.

See   Analysis by means of Video for references.

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