databallr Patch Notes

Live Bracket — Tap any series and the card opens into the full matchup view. Hit back and you land right where you left off — same scroll position, same conference tab.

How They Stack Up — Side-by-side ratings, pace, eFG%, turnovers, rebounding, and free-throw rate, with bars showing who has the edge in each area.

Who's Actually on the Floor — Both rotations sorted by impact, with offensive and defensive splits color-coded so the difference-makers jump off the page.

Schedule panel covers tip times and broadcast networks for every game in the series.

The Scoring Ladder — Walk through FG% → eFG% → TS% → rTS → zTS to see what each step adds — and what it leaves out.

Live Leaderboard — Sort and filter every qualifying player by raw shooting, role-adjusted shooting, and the playtype gap between the two.

See It in Action — Hand-picked examples showing how zTS reframes efficiency: same-rTS players split apart, finishing bigs come back to earth, high-burden creators finally get the credit.

Formula: zTS = rTS + PT Diff. Coverage from 2019 to today.

What Is 1% Worth? — Live point values for a one-point bump in 2P%, 3P%, FT%, three-point share, free-throw rate, offensive rebounding, and turnover reduction.

How the Math Builds Up — Three live cards trace each lever through possessions, shot attempts, and per-shot efficiency to show how it lands at the final number.

Preset team profiles for league-average, heliocentric guard, movement-shooter, rim-pressure, and glass-heavy offenses.

Pick Your Matchup — Choose each side with the same team picker you know from WOWY. Set the season year independently for each club so cross-era arguments (this year vs a title team from a decade ago) are one click away.

Same View, Two Metrics — Toggle DARKO DPM or Time Decay RAPM, then sort by impact rank or by position to see how each rotation lines up.

Rotation, Not Just Stars — The side-by-side roster layout carries over from the playoffs matchup tool — minutes, roles, and O/D splits stay easy to read.

Toolbar Powerhouse — Scatter plots, trend lines, video matchups, side-by-side comparison, favorites, and column reordering — all from a single toolbar at the top.

One Click Into Any Player — Click any name to open a deep profile with career stats and percentile breakdowns.

Make It Yours — Save up to 10 custom tabs with your own column lineups. Drag to reorder columns and tabs. Pick a default and it loads on every visit.

Desktop Hotkeys — Press T for fullscreen, W or E to shrink or grow cell data, F for inline filters, G for the glossary, Z to flip between the main table and the comparison table, and C while hovering a row to add that player to the comparison.

Per Game, Per 75, and Per 100 scaling. Filter by team, position, and any stat threshold.

Six Factors at a Glance — Offense and defense each split into shooting, turnovers, and rebounding so you can see exactly where a team gains or loses its edge.

Where the Shots Come From — Frequency and accuracy at the rim, mid-range, and behind the arc, plotted against league average.

Strip Out the Variance — What if every team shot league-average from three? See who's truly hot and who's just riding a streak that won't last.

Closest Team in History — Compare any team to the last 25 years (2002–2026) on the same factors and see which roster they most resemble.

Card view with a tree visualization or a sortable table. Interactive scatter plot for any two stats.

Sortable Table — Filter by active status or position, search the header, sort on any column, export to CSV, and see DARKO DPM right next to the physical measurements.

Body Comps — Per-player historical match finder using height plus wingspan with a similarity score so you know how close the comp really is.

See It Visually — Position scatter plots, positional averages, and a selected-player overlay for side-by-side body proportion.

Toggle between no-shoes and with-shoes height, and between inches and feet/inches.

Cap at a Glance — Total payroll, both apron statuses, and remaining cap space — the headline numbers right at the top of every team page.

Five-Year View — See every contract on the roster across the next five seasons. Player options, team options, guarantees, and free-agent windows are all called out so the future picture is clear.

Where the Money Goes — A flow diagram from total payroll through guards, forwards, and centers down to individual players — the easiest way to read a roster.

Bar Against the Thresholds — A simple bar showing payroll against the cap, the luxury tax, and both apron lines.

Sortable contract table with cap hit, base salary, and % of cap. Click any player for a full breakdown.

Coverage from 2022–23 through projected 2028–29.

Full Box Scores — Every player's stat line, refreshed throughout the game.

Live Play-by-Play — Follow the action as it unfolds, possession by possession.

Books in One Place — Sportsbook spreads and totals next to the consensus line, if that's your thing.

Color-coded injury report and player props on every game.

Date picker syncs to the URL so any day's slate is shareable. Press 1–9 to jump between games on desktop.

Drag and Drop — Move players from the pool into any tier, reorder freely within tiers, and shuffle between tiers as your mind changes.

Pick the Stats — Choose which two stats show on every card — counting, efficiency, or impact, your call.

Share It — Export your finished list as a clean PNG ready for posting on social media.

Position presets (Guards, Wings, Bigs) to filter the player pool. Tiers persist across sessions so you can come back to a list later.

Start Where You Are — Four tiers move from everyday ideas (why per-possession stats exist) through impact models, shooting, and lineup context. Skip around or read in order — each topic stands on its own.

Plain Language, Real Examples — Myth busters and quick math where it helps, not walls of notation. When a concept ties to a tool on databallr, the page links you straight there.

Easy to Navigate — Search the whole library, filter by tier, and use the sticky outline to jump between sections on long reads.

Over 15 topics today, with room to grow — if a term on the site confuses you, check here first.

Pure Lineup-Adjusted Model — Trained on roughly 650,000 possessions across the last three seasons, with recent play weighted more heavily. No box-score priors — the model only knows who was on the floor.

What Each Number Means — Offense splits into Shot Quality (oSQ), Shot Making (oMake), and Free Throws (oFT). Defense mirrors it with Shot Quality Allowed (dSQ), Contest (dContest), and Free Throws (dFT).

Higher Is Always Better — Defensive signs are flipped so positive is good on both ends. No mental math required.

Sourced from ShotQuality's pre-shot expected-value data — no DARKO/EPM-style stabilization layered on top.

A second-stage check confirms the components rebuild scoring impact (oTS / dTS), so the math closes.

Read the Method — Full write-up lives on the page itself. The six-factor stats also show up on the Stats page in the Six Factor tab.

Faster Year Picker — Two-step year selection with This Year, Last 3, and Last 5 presets — set up a WOWY in seconds.

Hotkeys for Everything — Open the player tray, jump to the team modal, hop the year picker, and clear selections without touching the mouse.

Recency-Weighted Team Stats — Team ON/OFF and RAPM now anchor to your end year and weight recent games more heavily, so the numbers reflect how a team is actually playing right now.

Use the ON-OFF / RAPM toggle inside team view to switch contexts instantly.

RAPM columns now include ORAPM, DRAPM, the six factors, and residual.

Build Your Own Comparison — A fifth tab in the view selector for any combination of offense, defense, impact, and shooting metrics.

Save Your Setups — Signed-in users can save up to five named Custom views. The last one used loads by default; save, rename, and delete from the PvP card itself.

Cleaner DARKO Credit — The unfiltered Top 50 ticker now links the title to DARKO.app with a separate (via @kmedved) credit beside it — so the source is always one click away.

Honest Playtype Bars — Single-player playtype bars still scale to the player's heaviest usage, but now compress proportionally when a balanced profile would otherwise look misleadingly stacked.

Per-Game Counting — Counting stats now have a dedicated per-game mode alongside totals and per-100.

Totals Mode — Switch to season totals when you want the raw counting numbers instead of averages.

Percentile rankings and stat bars across counting, advanced, and impact categories.

Career mode goes back to 2001 — stats before that season aren't available.

Stats Land Faster — Box-score numbers appear during and right after the game instead of waiting for an overnight refresh.

No Faked Numbers — Advanced-only fields stay blank until the data is published instead of showing zeros or borrowing approximations from somewhere else.

Heads-Up View — The page uses one safe default view and explains when each kind of stat usually shows up — no more wondering why a column is empty.

Always-Fresh Scores — When the box score updates first, the scoreboard follows immediately. Scores and final statuses no longer lag behind the game you've already opened.

RAPM Watch Grid — A 2026 time-decay RAPM grid with quick toggles between Total, Offense, and Defense. Built for fast scanning.

Search across 5,000+ active players or use quick-access buttons for the names you check most.

Actively in development — poke around and tell me what's broken or missing.