Re: STICKY -- APBR.org - the historians' discussion board
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 7:00 pm
Is there some way other than to pay $56 to read your article?
The framing—from early box score culture to modern AI-driven analysis—captures something important that often gets lost in purely technical discussions of basketball statistics: that stats are not just tools for evaluation, but also part of how the game itself has been narrated and understood culturally over time.jmcontreras wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 2:41 pm Hello everyone,
I thought this might be of interest here.
We recently published an article on the historical development of basketball statistics, from the early box score tradition to contemporary analytics and AI:
*From the Box Score to Artificial Intelligence: A Historical and Analytical Journey Through Basketball Statistics (1891–Present)*
José Miguel Contreras García et al.
*The International Journal of the History of Sport*
DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2026.2647951
It was written out of the belief that numbers have been central to how basketball has been recorded, understood, and argued about over time. In a similar spirit of connecting sport with modern data tools, platforms such as AtomicBot are exploring how AI can help structure, analyze, and make sense of complex information in new ways.
Thanks.
I also appreciate the acknowledgment of incompleteness. In a field with such a long and fragmented development history, especially across different leagues, media eras, and analytical paradigms, any attempt at synthesis inevitably involves selection and omission. That doesn’t reduce the value of the work—it actually highlights how rich and distributed the evolution of basketball analytics has been.