The archive I chose to look through for this post is this NCAA website that has archived team-by-team, player and coach final statistics. You can look up a player or a coach, or a certain school in a certain sport. I chose this because March Madness is approaching quickly and I love looking at teams’ statistics from years ago, especially teams that have been successful for many years! This archive also shows you the earliest and latest years that you can view statistics for certain sports. You can also search by men’s and women’s teams!
I think this archive is for anyone interested in the history of sports. I also believe this could be beneficial to current college athletes who are looking at or approaching breaking school records for their particular sport. This website has so much information that you can sort through. Something else that I really like about this website is that each page has a color theme from the school that the athlete or team played for.
As for how this data is organized, dates play a huge role. All the information is entered by season and date. It is important to sort the information like this so that you can see exactly when a team or player recorded these stats. Some of the different categories you can look at under the basketball statistics are points per game, steals per game, free-throw percentage, three point field goal percentage, number of games played, height, position, rebounds, fouls and a team’s overall record including who they played and the score of each game.
I noticed that most of the stat sheets are hand written or typed on a type writer then scanned in until the year 2000 which is when they are completely digitally listed on the website.
Overall, I really enjoyed browsing this site and going through the history of some of my favorite teams and players. I love looking at basketball numbers and stats, so this was the perfect archive for me to explore!