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What's New for 2009-10

•   Game-by-game statistics begin for DI men’s and women’s hoops, and perhaps women’s field hockey
Following the success of our football statistics program, we plan to introduce a game-by-game format for Division I men’s and women’s basketball for the 2009-10 season. This means each individual institution will submit a game XML for every home contest throughout the season, allowing us to significantly expand the amount of data we post throughout the year, including full box scores and play-by-plays for every game. 
       Later this summer, we will provide a link to the “beta-testing” we did last season and ask that SIDs provide their suggestions on what additional stats and reports you would like to see in hoops next winter.  Also, pending approval by the Division I field hockey SIDs, we plan to introduce this new, game-by-game reporting procedure, with additional statistics, for that sport this fall.


•  Football and men’s and women’s basketball records books move to on-line only format
Only four of our records books or statisticians’ manuals still are printed and mailed to SIDs and the 2009-10 year will be the last of those publications as well (Division I football, II/III football and men’s and women’s basketball).  You will notice this year’s editions of those records books will be a lot thinner as we already have moved much of the content from previous versions to our on-line sites.  Beginning with the 2010-11 season, NO statistical publications will be printed and mailed to the membership.


•  Statistical ranking summaries will feature customized, user-created options
Since we introduced the ranking summaries a number of years ago, it has become one of the more popular features of the NCAA statistical rankings.
      Beginning this fall, SIDs (and anyone else accessing our sites) will be able to create their own summaries, mixing any combination of teams from a division.  These special reports could range from two-team summaries featuring your team and your next opponent, four, or eight-team tournament comparisons, or even a breakdown of the top statistical leaders in a specific Division II or III region with 30-40 teams.  These special reports will be available for all sports and divisions.


•    Coaching update link offered year-round
Veteran SIDs are familiar with how we ask you to update your head coaching data and check career records at the same time that you are updating the rosters for your various teams.  But what happens when you have a coaching change and the link to that team’s roster no longer is available?  We’ve resolved that issue by adding a 24/7 coaching link to your team page.  The coach/roster update option will still be available as well, but this new link will allow you to view ALL your head coaches at one spot and make changes whenever they take place.
      We’ve also added a link that will give you access to each coach’s year-by-year record as we have it in the NCAA system.  Many times, we’ll hear from some of you regarding a discrepancy between what you have for your coach’s career record compared with ours.  This option will allow you to see exactly what we have and give you a quick way to find where our two lists may be different.


•    Weekly career updates rolled out for additional sports
Currently, Division I football is the only sport that provides a weekly update of active career leaders in various statistical categories.  We plan to expand those charts to our other sports and divisions this year.  This is only now possible because the overwhelming majority of you are providing complete statistics for all your players through the XML reporting system.
     This new set of reports will be updated at the same time as the weekly statistics and will allow you to track the active leaders in many different categories.  We also are developing an additional feature that will list the all-time career charts for these categories so you can track the progress of various active players as they approach and move into the all-time lists.


•    AIAW archival data added to on-line records books
Thanks to an agreement we have made with the University of Maryland library, the statistics staff has acquired copies of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) championship records and results from the 1970s and early 1980s.  We currently are sorting though this mountain of information and plan to include AIAW national championship results and statistics from that era as part of our NCAA records books. 
       This will be an ongoing project we hope will lead to the discovery of additional historical information, both filling in any gaps from the Maryland files, to earlier women’s organizations such as the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW).


•  Follow stats on Twitter
The statistics staff  joined Twitter a couple of months ago as an additional way to alert everyone to what we are doing (http://twitter.com/ncaastats).  And, no, you won’t read any Tweets about what our staff had for breakfast or our favorite movies.  The hope is our followers on Twitter will be able to more quickly know about the latest statistical updates, records books postings on our NCAA sites, along with sport-specific reports on attendance, statistical trends and coaching records.


•  Depth of national rankings increased for all sports
This new feature actually was added earlier this spring, but we wanted to be sure everyone was aware of it.  This idea came about because we frequently receive specific requests from many of you that require digging deeper into the national rankings (top ten freshmen scorers, top assist-makers among centers, etc.).
      With these expanded rankings, you still have the option only to few the top players and teams, but you also can view, for example, the top 500 in certain individual categories or scan an entire team category from top to bottom.  This can be helpful if you what to see which teams may be ranked “around” your school and you are not in the top 50.


•    Team logos on team stats pages…player and coach photos to come soon?
Quite a few years ago, we added school colors to the team pages for all of our sports, and now we think another nice addition would be to include your school logo on those pages as well.  This would be an optional choice for each of you, and would be part of the roster update.  You would be asked to upload a color logo and you also would have the choice of uploading sport-specific logos for each of your teams. 
      This feature would be the precursor to a more advanced download option in which we’d ask you to supply head shots for each of the players on your roster and the head coach.  Then, when our national rankings are displayed, viewers would also have the choice of seeing a photo of the various leaders.  The same option would be used for our coaching categories.  In future years, we could add photos to our on-line records books, so each national record category would include a photo of the record holder.


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