Overview of Stathead search tools

Overview of Stathead search tools

Stathead tools are, for the most part, called “Finders”, because you can use them to find different kinds of stats. Some of these tools are available across multiple sports, while others are more specialized to accommodate the unique needs of a particular sport. Here’s a quick overview of the Finders and what they can do: 

Season Finder: Use this to look up single-season, multi-season, or career stats and records.

Players: Available for basketball, baseball, football, hockey, soccer

Teams: Available for basketball, baseball, football, hockey, soccer

Did you know that only 6 teams in NBA history have scored 10,000 points in a season?


Game Finder: Use this to look up stats from a single game or a set of multiple games, whether in just one season or across multiple years. 

Players: Available for basketball, baseball, football, hockey, soccer

Teams: Available for basketball, baseball, football, hockey, soccer

For example, you'll be able to answer the trivia question: which NHL team scored 16 goals in a game?


Streak Finder: Use this to find streaks of consecutive games or seasons that match certain criteria. 

Players: Available for basketball, baseball, football, hockey

Teams: Available for basketball, baseball, football, hockey

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers had 14 straight losing seasons from 1983-1996, the longest streak of below-.500 seasons in NFL history.


Span Finder: Use this to search for stats across spans of N games. Along with choosing any span of games, you can specific the start/end of the span to be either the season, career or stint with franchise.

Players: Available for basketball, baseball, football, hockey

Teams: Available for basketball, baseball, football, hockey

The most RBI in any 162-game span is 198, done by Lou Gehrig in 1930-31.


Event/Play/Shot/Goal Finder: Use this to look up individual plays, shots, goals and events from our extensive play-by-play databases. 

Available for basketball, baseball, football, hockey

Find every walk-off home run in World Series history.


Versus Finder: See player stats and head-to-head gamelogs side-by-side, either for a single season or a range of years. Also look up player performances vs single teams. And research team vs team gamelogs and season stats. 

Available for basketball, baseball, hockey, football

How does LeBron James' first 5 seasons compare to Michael Jordan's first 5 seasons?


Split Finder: This tool allows you to research situational statlines, whether in a single season or across multiple years. 

Players: Available for baseball, football

Teams: Available for baseball, football

Fun fact: Jimmie Foxx hit 70 homers in his career against the Yankees, the most of any player against the Yankees in their franchise history.

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