Improve the ESPN NBA box score viewing experience
This extension adds custom CSS to the ESPN NBA box score to improve the viewing experience.
NOTES
- When you land on the box score page you may need to refresh your browser. For best results open a new tab and hit: http://espn.com/nba/scoreboard.
ENHANCEMENTS
- Fits everything on one page. Team box scores appear side-by-side rather than stacked.
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UPDATES
v 1.3.0 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
November 1st 2024
- Adds play-by-play highlighting (green for positive plays, red for negative).
- Adds scores to tab (eg. MIL 48 - 70 MEM).
- Scores now update every extension popover / popup.
- Adds NCAA Mens and Womens support (this may be a little janky to start with and I've disabled advanced stats until I can make sure they line up with Basketball References numbers.
- Adds pagination to extension popover / popup. Not sure if this will ever be necessary but with the addition of college sports there may be some epic game days (eg March Madness).
v 1.2.0 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
October 11th 2024
- Previous day stays active for 8 hours after midnight EST. This means you won't have to navigate back to the previous day while the late west coast games are still live.
v 1.1.9 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
October 3rd 2024
- Adds fallback icon in case team logo can't be found (this happens a bit in pre-season with the non-NBA teams).
v 1.1.8 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
October 1st 2024
- Fixes an issue where scoreboard and standings links weren't being updated when a user changed sports.
v 1.1.7 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
September 28th 2024
- Adds sport nav to toggle between NBA and WNBA.
v 1.1.6 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
September 26th 2024
- Highlight on-court players. This works based on the five players who's stats most recently changed.
- Fix issue with play-by-play and team stats disappearing once a game transitions to the "Final" state.
v 1.1.5 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
September 11th 2024
- Added play-by-play to box score page
- Added team stats to box score page (including advanced stats which update during a game)
v 1.1.4 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
September 4th 2024
- Show game start times in a user's local timezone.
- Highlight score changes as they happen with yellow background (check out a WNBA game while it's live to see it in action).
v 1.1.3 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
September 2nd 2024
- Adds WNBA games to browser action popover in August + September.
v 1.1.2 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
August 31st 2024
- Behind the scenes refactor of browser popover.
v 1.1.0 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
July 8th 2023
- Adds Summer League to the extension popover.
v 1.0.0 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
October 8th 2022
- Fixes CSS on box scores so they are once again side-by-side.
- Due to some major behind the scenes changes to the ESPN box scores, none of the old JavaScript works any more. That means no advanced stats, highlighting stats as they change, show current on court players, play-by-play stats below the box score, and all of the other cool stuff.
v 0.3.39 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
December 3rd 2021
- Adds "Standings" button to extension popover for easier access.
v 0.3.38 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
August 7th 2021
- Updates for Vegas Summer League.
v 0.3.37 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
July 2nd 2021
- Fixes games incorrectly linking to summer league box scores.
v 0.3.36 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
April 18th 2021
- Styled updates to make background colour consistently white.
- Fixes play-by-play iframe on box score page.
- Updates link in extension popover so it uses ESPN's updated "/_/" style URL scheme.
v 0.3.35 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
April 16th 2021
- Updated to handle new URLs. This fixes a bug where clicking between box scores would cause the extension to stop working.
v 0.3.34 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
December 13th 2020
- 2020-21 season updates.
v 0.3.33 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
July 31st 2020
- Further summer league popup fixes
v 0.3.32 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
July 27th 2020
- Popup updates to handle NBA restart (don't look for Summer League schedule).
v 0.3.31 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
November 3rd 2019
- Fixed a long-standing bug where advanced stats (pace, ORTG, etc) wouldn't work when there was less than 1 minute to go in a period. This was due to time being formatted as 58.3 instead of 10:40.
v 0.3.30 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
October 28th 2019
- Fix issue with team records not appearing in browser extension popup.
v 0.3.29 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
June 6th 2019
- Handle ESPN's shift from http to https.
v 0.3.28 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
May 23rd 2019
- Add support for WNBA.
v 0.3.27 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
April 4th 2019
- Hide sponsored "content".
v 0.3.26 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
March 17th 2019
- Fixed a bug with play-by-play not updating after initial load.
v 0.3.25 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
February 16th 2019
- Fixed an all-star weekend bug with all star teams not having win/loss records.
v 0.3.24 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
November 11th 2018
- Added team foul count to play-by-play. Cumulative quarter-by-quarter numbers don't always line up with team totals in box scores yet.
- Added team records to extension popup prior to a match has beginning.
v 0.3.20 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
November 6th 2018
- Fixes to improve box score, play-by-play and gamecast appearance on ESPN fantasy pages.
- Added individual team possession counts.
v 0.3.19 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
October 16th 2018
- Added a close button to the red extension navigation so it can be hidden (will re-appear if you refresh the page).
v 0.3.18 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Fixed a bug with Summer League game URLs in the extension popup.
v 0.3.17 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Added Summer League support and a link to ESPN's Summer League scoreboard.
- Added Summer League games to extension popup.
v 0.3.15 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Added more consistent layouts between different pages (i.e. recap, gamecast, boxscore, etc).
- Switched "Tickets" link to "Gamecast" for games which are yet to start.
v 0.3.13 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Added message to extension popup for days with no games.
v 0.3.12 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Re-wrote extension popup in React (was previously jQuery) and added some loading and transition animations. Big woop.
- Highlight winning team in extension popup.
v 0.3.10 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Reduced width of "video highlights" and "latest" columns at the bottom of the page.
v 0.3.8 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Added individual player advanced stats during live games.
v 0.3.7 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Added daily leaders and season leaders to ESPN stat dropdown.
- Fixed a bug with the game strip sticking to the page. This was caused by an update on ESPN's end.
v 0.3.6 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Minor UI tidy-up.
- Adjusted display format of team TS%.
v 0.3.4 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Fixed a bug where play-by-play data wasn't being formatted if it was updated after being added. ESPN have only just started doing this. On the upside you no longer need to refresh the page in order for updates to be added (this was a limitation on ESPN's end).
- Improved formatting of shot charts.
- Hardset a cookie to turn off autoplay on the box score page. This may affect autoplay on other ESPN pages but autoplay is nasty and should be discouraged. Hit me up on twitter @lenymo if you have an objection to this.
v 0.3.3 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Removed localised times in extension popup due to a bug.
v 0.3.2 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Localised times in popup.
- Added more days to popup nav.
v 0.3.1 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Updated the extension popup with game scores and quick links to box score (accessible by clicking the red basketball extension icon).
- Updated Fan Duel scoring formula to be consistent with new official NBA fantasy scoring rules (these are accessibly by clicking the [ ] ADVANCED STATS checkbox once a game is over.
- Updated the background color behind some team logos because they looked whack (Boston, Atlanta and Phoenix).
- Released 19th October 2017.
v 0.2.4 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Added highlighting of on-court players to box score. This works based on the five players whose stats were most recently updated, so it usually takes a short while to kick in after a game starts or after a stoppage (time out, end of quarter). The most reliable stats to indicate who's on court are +/- and minutes because these increase even if a player doesn't add any stats but this does mean it can take a while to update if no one scores for a minute or two.
- Added handy links which appear when you hover the ESPN logo. I'll probably try and make this menu more obvious at some point.
- Updated styling of new team logos.
v 0.2.3 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Added team BLK%, STL%.
- Improved speed of play-by-play highlighting.
- Updated format of team shooting percentage (50.0% instead of .500). Easier to read.
- Added sport dropdown back alongside scoreboard.
v 0.2.1 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Added team pace, offensive rating, defensive rating and net rating for College Hoops. These numbers currently differ slightly from basketball reference's numbers.
v 0.2.0 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Added individual player advanced stats once a game is finished. Still ironing out bugs for this to work during a live game.
- Added highlighting to play-by-play.
- In the works:
- Advanced team stats for college hoops.
- Live individual player advanced stats.
v 0.1.8 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
- Set all player links to open in a new tab.
- Fixed player links for Australian users (if any other countries are experiencing issues let me know).
Latest reviews
- (2024-01-30) Ah, finally! I hated that ESPN killed the old "Gamecast" boxscore layout but adding this extension is about the closest that it'll probably get back to that old "Gamecast" layout. If I could offer you one critic is if the boxscore could have the five current players out on the court with a show/hide button for the current players on the bench. That way there would be space for the boxscore, play-by-play and short chart to be on the screen all that the same time without scrolling but I don't know if that possible. Anyways, thanks for creating this!
- (2022-10-20) TJ Brashears: This extension is amazing but currently not working at the start of the season
- (2022-10-19) David L: The best extension ever. I use it every night. However, not working at start of 2022 season. Let me know anything at [email protected] need it for my play by play
- (2021-12-05) Z Wu: ADD time zone please! otherwise great!
- (2021-04-05) Daniel Ratté: Fonctionne très bien, plus agréable visuellement et le surlignage en direct est genial!
- (2021-01-13) MJ Wright: great extension, try it out
- (2021-01-08) Raksmey Ngoun: An amazing and very useful extension! Wish I would have found this sooner. Thank you for such an amazing tool for us fantasy players!
- (2020-03-12) Angus Glasson: epic
- (2019-11-25) Eric He: Nothing Like this. DOWNLOAD IT!!!
- (2019-11-23) Adithya: A beautiful, simple extension that improves the user experience hundred-fold. The original version of this which just reformatted the box scores was by itself a godsend, but the creator keeps listening to user input and coming up with new ideas and improvements that work in spite of how clunky the underlying ESPN site is. Cannot recommend it enough.
- (2019-09-27) Adekeye Ifedayo: Amazing. All you need in one place.
- (2019-02-28) good
- (2019-02-13) Hithesh: This is just beautiful!!!! So well managed and good looking!!
- (2018-10-19) Jason P: Calling at 'Enhanced ESPN NBA box score' is hugely underselling this addon. Yes, that's essentially what it is, but the functionality and the clean layout is amazing. This deserves more recognition!!!!
- (2018-10-19) pre: Nothing else comparable out there -- Invaluable enhancements for those of us who use ESPN's NBA/basketball box scores. Not only adds additional data/advanced stats, but also how this information is presented/re-organized -- it makes it easier to comprehend. Subtle but useful extension improvements along the way, as well. Very much appreciate the creator being receptive to input and improvements on Twitter :)
- (2018-03-28) Karl Svavar Guðmundsson: Very nice, would be 5 stars if the video playback weren't so big. If I wanted a full screen video I'd just press the full screen button. Would it be possible to make the video player smaller? :)
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- (2017-03-17) Irina Svetlowa: Hi, I am interested in acquiring your extension "Enhanced ESPN NBA box score". Please contact me at: [email protected]
- (2017-01-29) Uroš Grčar: It is just a link to http://www.espn.com/nba/scoreboard. It is not an extension.
- (2017-01-17) Kelly Scaletta: I'm a professional NBA blogger, and I've been doing a lot of these stats by hand. I didn't realize this existed; it is absolutely LIFE-CHANGING. Wonderful extension!!!
- (2016-11-29) Omar Wen: After NBA.com changed their boxscore, I switched over to ESPN. Had flaws but this app makes it absolutely perfect. Must have for any NBA fan.
- (2016-11-10) paulo dela viña: awesome.. the layout is clean, and I can see all the stats!
- (2016-11-10) Joshua Seaman: Nooice. I thought the new box score format of ESPN was pretty weak, hiding the benches AND the team stats/percentages. And having to scroll the page from one team to the other sucked. Now, everything is in plain sight, as well as the extra stats. Good looking out Lenymo.
- (2016-11-08) Sarthak Kumar: excellent
- (2016-11-08) Stevo Quinn: superb