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I'm still unsure of how game time is denoted in the nbastats_XXXX.csv files. I consulted the data dictionary, but it doesn't seem to be that PCTIMESTRING represents the time to the end of the quarter. At best, it looks like this is the cumulative game time that has elapsed in the game multiplied by 60. However, there are still obvious errors. For instance, there are numerous games where a quarter ends, and the next quarter starts with a PCTIMESTRING value that is less than the previous value.

Can you offer clarification on this, and more importantly, how to estimate the current game time for each event in the file?

Incredible work! I was curious if you had any insight into acquiring (or the process to acquire) play-by-play data from the early 90s?

Thank you for compiling this dataset and for making it easily accessible!

I was just wondering about the availability of post-season (as well as pre-season and all-start game) data. What was the rationale behind only using regular season data here?

Thank you again!