Old box scores?

[justanotherspursfan]

Does anyone know where I can find an archive of NBA box scores from previous years? I'm interested in screen scraping them and building a database, but I'm not sure where to look for the source data.

Thanks in advance!

[mardigan]

I know that you can get them from last year on ESPN.com, you just have to go to the stats page, click on any player, ckick on game log, it will show you every outcome of the season, then you can click on each outcome individually for the box scores. Sorry if this doesnt help

[justanotherspursfan]

I know that you can get them from last year on ESPN.com, you just have to go to the stats page, click on any player, ckick on game log, it will show you every outcome of the season, then you can click on each outcome individually for the box scores. Sorry if this doesnt help

It's a start, so I appreciate it. I'm hoping to find 5 or 10 seasons' worth of data, but I'll happily take one as better than none.

[Findog]

http://www.basketball-reference.com/

[justanotherspursfan]

http://www.basketball-reference.com/

Very cool! I didn't realize they archived full boxes. Thanks!

[FromWayDowntown]

b-r has all NBA regular season boxes back to 1986-87 and all playoff boxscores after 1996.