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Basketball

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Providers using this tag (17)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
dunkapi-comCompanySportsNBA1 API57.4
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
iSports APISports APISports DataFootball15 APIs47.9Unrivaled BasketballCompanyConsumerSports1 API43.4
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
API-SportsSports DataLive ScoresStatisticsFootball12 APIs33.8TheSportsSportsFootballTennis1 API33.4StatoriumSportsSports DataFootballSoccer3 APIs31.2Stats PerformSportsSports DataFootballBaseball1 API32.5
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
PreciserCompanySportsSports AnalyticsComputer Vision1 API19.9BallislifeCompanySportsMedia1 API14.4All Sports APISportsFootballSoccer4 APIs13.1OvertimeCompanySportsMediaEntertainment11.1
Minimal 6 Almost no public developer surface
National Basketball AssociationSportsEntertainmentProfessional League2.8SIQ BasketballCompanySportsSports Technology2.6HudlSportsSports TechnologySports PerformanceSports Analytics7.5balldontliePublic APIsSportsSports Data1 API5.1Hawk-Eye InnovationsSports TechnologyBall TrackingOptical TrackingOfficiating3.8NBA StatsPublic APIsSportsSports Data1 API2.4

APIs with this tag (8)

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Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
api-ninjas-com Basketball APINBA, WNBA and Division I men's and women's college basketball schedules, live and final scores, standings, ...52.8SportStatsAPI Basketball APIThe basketball API from SportStatsAPI — 33 operation(s) for basketball.50.9
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Sportradar NBA APIProvides comprehensive NBA data including real-time play-by-play, box scores, standings, team and player st...34.7API-BasketballAPI-Basketball provides real-time and historical basketball data including games, standings, team and playe...33.8API-NBAAPI-NBA provides NBA-specific data including games, live scores, standings, team and player statistics and ...33.8TheSports Basketball APIReal-time basketball data feeds including NBA, EuroLeague, and other major leagues. Covers teams, players, ...33.4
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
All Sports Basketball APIThe All Sports Basketball API provides real-time and historical basketball data including livescores, fixtu...13.1
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Second Spectrum Tracking DataSkeletal and optical tracking data feed produced from in-venue computer vision systems for football and bas...9.6

Companies reaching this through an API (4)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Basketball” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

api-ninjas-com Second Spectrum (Genius Sports) Sportradar SportStatsAPI

Score breakdown

Frequency
36.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
21.3
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

Sports broader

Related tags

American Football 7 co-occurrences Baseball 6 co-occurrences Standings 6 co-occurrences NBA 5 co-occurrences Tennis 5 co-occurrences Sports Data 11 co-occurrences Football 8 co-occurrences Soccer 6 co-occurrences

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