Sun May 03, 2015 3:51 am
The entire database has been populated manually by myself and many great people from Reddit who helped out, huge thanks to them! There are still about 250 players yet to be added, mostly historics and emerald players (you can see on the collections page). Also since the players were entered manually, you may find mistakes in their attributes. If you do notice one, contact us on Twitter or leave a comment on the player and we'll get it fixed ASAP.
To make it as easy as possible to compare players, each player will have 6 ratings: inside scoring, outside scoring, playmaking, athleticism, defending and rebounding; these will be automatically generated based on the player attributes and their positions. For example a center's athleticism rating will mostly be affected by their strength and lightly affected by quickness and speed, or vice-verca for guards. The actual formulas used to calculate these values can be seen at http://pastebin.com/h7wYNKVn. Since the ratings depend on a player's position, there may be cases where, for example, a centers outside shooting is better than a shooting guards, but this is nothing unusual.