Reuse our numbers
Our original analytics are free to reuse, including in commercial work, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). The one condition: credit Hoops Nightly and link to the page the numbers came from.
What is covered
- The Injury Wave, Injury Impact and the day-to-day and minutes-missing studies on the injury pages.
- Defense vs Position, the on/off calculator and Rest and Travel.
- The Margin, The Ledger (our check of each report against what happened), the Milestone Tracker projections and the season simulator odds.
- The percentile ranks on player pages, the charts showing any of the above, and the JSON at
/api/open.
That means our own calculations: minutes lost, win cost of absences, position splits, on/off ratings, travel load, report hit rates, milestone dates and simulated odds.
What is not covered
- Underlying data from other sources keeps its own terms: scores, box scores, play-by-play, schedules, rosters, official injury reports, contracts and salary figures. Facts such as a final score are not owned by anyone, but we cannot license other people's databases to you.
- Reports quoted in The Ledger belong to the journalists who wrote them; only our verdict on each one is ours to license.
- Articles and recaps from our desks, podcasts, the site's design and marks, team logos, and photographs (Wikimedia Commons images keep the license shown on each).
- Bulk copying of the site. Scraping or mirroring pages is still not allowed under our terms of use. Use the JSON instead: it exists for this.
How to credit us
Name the source and link to the page you used. Any of these works:
- Source: Hoops Nightly,
hoopsnightly.com/injury-wave - Data: Hoops Nightly (CC BY 4.0), with a link on "Hoops Nightly"
- In a chart: "Chart data: Hoops Nightly" under the chart, with the address
Pages covered by this license have a Copy button next to a ready-made credit line. If you change our numbers or combine them with your own, say so ("adapted from Hoops Nightly"). Do not suggest that we endorse your work.
Accuracy
The numbers update through the season and many are model estimates, not official statistics. How each one is built is on the methodology page. The license comes without warranties, as the CC BY 4.0 text explains.
Questions
For larger projects, custom cuts of the data or anything this page does not answer, write to [email protected].