Dick Pfander, the collector of NBA box scores whom I wrote about this week, was integral to getting decades of statistics from the league’s early years into Sports-Reference.com’s database. So, too, was a man with little interest in the NBA but a knack for typing — really, really fast typing. After Pfander sold his trove […]
Dick Pfander, the collector of NBA box scores whom I wrote about this week, was integral to getting decades of statistics from the league’s early years into Sports-Reference.com’s database. So, too, was a man with little interest in the NBA but a knack for typing — really, really fast typing. After Pfander sold his trove […]
Dick Pfander has spent most of his life collecting and analyzing box scores from every NBA game since the league’s founding. He did most of his work in solitude, by hand, before the age of personal computers. And he did it simply for his own pleasure, surrounded by supportive family members who cared neither about […]
Dick Pfander has spent most of his life collecting and analyzing box scores from every NBA game since the league’s founding. He did most of his work in solitude, by hand, before the age of personal computers. And he did it simply for his own pleasure, surrounded by supportive family members who cared neither about […]
