After a good deal of experimenting, I think I’ve finally worked out a basketball version of One-Pager. As with the original soccer version, I was trying to make a game that could fit on one printed page yet deliver a little more complexity than a Simple Seasons score generator. And thanks to pace stats and per-100-possession numbers, I think I’ve got what I was looking for.
One-Pager Pro Basketball breaks a quarter down into 7 parts (so slightly under 2 minutes each) and determines how much scoring is done by each team in those parts. (I had intended to break it down into 2-minute parts–about 4 possessions for each team–but I couldn’t quite get the scoring to work out. Turns out 7 parts worked much better!) That might sound a little dry, but it’s actually quite engaging, especially when you have a tie game going into the last section (from my testing: Washington 103, Sacramento 101).
Right now, I have the last two NBA seasons uploaded, but I hope to get more up soon. This game might end up skewing towards modern seasons due to stats availability, but I’ll do what I can.
So please, go check it out, let me know what you think, and thanks for playing!