Help & how it works

This Is Basketball (TIB) is a basketball stats platform: scores, box scores, and efficiency metrics for every game we track — Belgian competitions (the Top Divisions, the national 1e and 2e Landelijke for men and women, the cups, youth, and the national teams), the EuroLeague (every season since 2007-08, plus the SuperCup), the EuroCup (every season since 2007-08), the EuroLeague’s U18 Next Generation Tournament (every tournament since 2007-08; players under 16 are shown by their initials only), the Basketball Champions League (every season since 2016-17), European and international tournaments, and more. Much of it is historical too, so you can dig back through past seasons, not just today’s results.

You can browse everything without an account. Signing up (free) adds personal touches — following your teams, favourites, and game alerts — but it’s never required to read the stats.

There are three quick ways to get to what you want, from the bar at the top of every page:

• Competitions menu— a full directory of leagues, split into Belgium (senior men, senior women, youth, national team) and International (European championships, World Cup, club leagues, NBA & more). Each league opens to its standings, schedule, and teams. Competitions that no longer run (the EMBL, which became the BNXT League, for one) move to Archived competitions — out of the menu, but every season, standing and player is still there.
• Games, Teams, Players — the top-level lists. Games is the schedule/results feed, Teams and Players are searchable directories.
• Search — the search box in the header jumps straight to any team, player, or game as you type.

Ask a question (AI search)

On the home page you can also ask in plain language— things like “top scorers in TDM1 this season” or “how did the U18 national team do?” — and get a direct answer built from the live data, with links to the relevant pages.

Every game has its own page. At the top you get the score header— the two teams, the final (or live) score, records, quarter-by-quarter breakdown, and the venue — tap the venue to open it in Google Maps. What’s below depends on whether the game is upcoming, live, or finished, shown as tabs:

• Preview (upcoming games) — a season-form comparison of the two teams, players to watch, the all-time head-to-head record, and game info (date, venue, officials). If a broadcaster is streaming it, a “Watch live” link appears.
• Gamecast (live & finished) — the story of the game: a lead tracker, a shot chart, shooting-percentage donuts, the game leaders, and the season series against this opponent.
• Box Score — the full per-player stat table for each team (see the next section for what the columns mean).
• Play-by-Play — the running log of what happened, possession by possession, where we have it.

Missing a number? A dash (–) or a 0 means we don’t have that stat for that game — some older or lower-division games only have a final score, not a full box score.

Match-sheet box scores. For the U21 competitions and the national 1e and 2e Landelijke, the box score comes from the official federation match sheet. A match sheet records who played, minutes, points, fouls and who started — and nothing else. So those games show exactly those columns, with a dash under rebounds, assists and shooting: not recorded, rather than zero. No efficiency rating is worked out from a line that incomplete. Every one of them is checked before it is published: the players’ points must add up to the final score for both teams, or the game is left out.

The box-score columns are the standard ones: MIN minutes, PTS points, FG / 3PT / FT shooting (made–attempted), OREB/DREB/REB rebounds, AST assists, STL steals, BLK blocks, TO turnovers, PF fouls, and +/- plus-minus.

Three efficiency ratings

The last columns are single-number summaries of a performance. We show three so you can compare:

• FIBA EFF and PIR— the familiar reference ratings you’ll know from elsewhere. Shown muted, for context.
• TIB EFF — our own TIB Efficiency Rating, shown in orange. It weights the things that actually swing games and factors in the level of competition, so a big night in a top league counts for more than the same line in a weaker one. It’s what we sort leaders by. Read how TIB EFF is built →

Numbers line up in neat columns and the winner’s score glows orange — orange throughout the site means “this is the standout”.

Standings live on each league page — win/loss records, ranking, and form. Leaderboards rank players across a league or season by a stat (points, rebounds, assists, and TIB EFF). Open a league and use its tabs to switch between standings, schedule, teams, and leaders.

There is no minimum number of games to appear on a leaderboard. A player with one big night early in the season can top a per-game list; the number of games shown beside each name is there so you can judge that for yourself.

Every player and team has a rich profile.

• Player pages — game log, per-game averages, best and worst games, a recent-form trend, a consistency rating, career and season totals, and an Awards & Achievements card where relevant. Photos appear where we have them; otherwise you’ll see the player’s initials.
• Team pages— record, schedule and results, the roster, team leaders, and a “did-you-know” insights strip. The star badge marks a team you follow. The breadcrumb at the top links to the team’s club, where one exists.

Most game lists have a week strip: pick a day, step a week back or forward with the arrows, or jump to a month with the calendar. The Hide scores switch covers every result, for when you are catching up on a game you have not watched yet.

On a competition’s schedule, a team’s schedule and the Game Center you can switch from Date to Round and step through the competition round by round. Rounds are worked out from the fixture list, so a game that was moved shows up under Rescheduled games instead of its official round. Competitions that do not play in rounds, like US college basketball, stay on dates.

A club usually runs many teams — a first team, a B team, U21, U18 and further down. The club page puts them together: every team of the club, and a “This week at the club” strip with all of their games in the same week, grouped by competition.

Useful when teams share players: if the U21 and the first team both play on Saturday, you see it in one place instead of opening every team.

Upcoming games show a “Who wins?” bar. Tap the team you think will win, and optionally by how much. Picking is for registered users (free): if you’re not signed in, tapping a team asks you to register or log in, and brings you straight back to that game afterwards. You can change your pick until tip-off, and every game of a gameday can be picked on one page, such as TDM1.

• Points: 3 for the right winner, and 2 more if you also picked the right margin (1–5, 6–15 or 16+ points). Points arrive once the game has a final score.
• Leaderboard: each competition has a season table and a table per gameday (Wednesday to Tuesday), where everyone starts level. For your privacy the tables never show your email or login: you appear only under a display name, which you choose in Settings and can change once every 14 days. Until you choose one you still score points, but you are not listed.
• Until a game has ten picks the bar shows the number of picks per side, not percentages — “75%” out of four picks would pretend to say more than it does.
• At tip-off the bar freezes rather than disappearing, so after the game you can still see what the crowd expected.

A career total on this site is built from one of two things, and it’s worth knowing which — because it explains why our number and someone else’s can differ.

• Game by game. Where we hold the box score of every game, the career figure is simply those games added up. This is the better kind: each line can be checked against a scoreboard, and it includes the play-offs.
• Season totals. For older seasons nobody published a game-by-game box score, so all that survives is an end-of-season line. Those still count toward a career total, and they show in their own table on the player page.

A season is only ever counted once. Where both exist for the same competition and season, the game-by-game figure is used and the recorded season total is shown separately, marked as superseded. We put the superseded number on the page rather than hiding it, because the gap between the two is usually informative: our older recorded totals are regular season only, so a season with a deep play-off run reads lower there than in the game log above it.

What we know is missing. For the EuroLeague we hold the box score of every game from 2007-08 onward, except part of 2021-22, which we are still filling in, and the same for the EuroCup. The Basketball Champions League has every season since its first, 2016-17 (six 2020-21 games with a result but no box score, which FIBA no longer publishes). The FIBA Europe Cup starts at 2025-26. We hold no box scores yet for the other European club competitions (the Europe Cup before 2025-26, the EuroCup before 2007-08, and the rest), and coverage of Belgian seasons before about 2015 is partial. So a player whose European career was mostly outside these competitions will read low here against a record that counts those games.

A dash means not recorded— not zero. A player showing no wins for a season didn’t lose every game; nobody wrote the record down.

If you spot a number that looks wrong, please tell us. Every correction on this page so far started with somebody comparing us against their own records and saying so.

Games in progress update automatically— the score header, quarter scores, and (for many games) the live box score refresh on their own while you watch, no reload needed. Live games are flagged across the site (home page, game lists, and the game page itself) so they’re easy to spot.

EuroLeague and EuroCup games are live too: the score, period and quarter scores update every minute, the game page shows the live box score, and the final box score lands within a minute or two of the buzzer.

When you’re signed in, tap the star on any league, team, or player to follow it. Your follows power a personalised menu and your dashboard, so your teams are always one tap away. Your favourite leagues also surface at the top of the Competitions menu.

We cover a lot of competitions, and most readers care about a handful. When you’re signed in, a league page has a Hide button: that competition then drops out of your Competitions menu, the league list and the week strip on the games page. Nothing is deleted — it’s only hidden for you.

To bring one back, open Favorites: the Hidden competitions card lists everything you’ve hidden, with an unhide button next to each. You can also still open a hidden league directly and unhide it from its own page.

Want a nudge when something happens? Tap “Notify me” on a game, a league, or a team page to turn on push notifications. You’ll then get alerts for that game / competition / team. You don’t need an account to turn them on, but signing in lets you fine-tune them.

What you’ll get

Alerts are deliberately throttled — enough to keep you in the loop, never a flood:

• Tip-off — the game goes live.
• Quarter & halftime — end of the 1st, halftime, end of the 3rd, overtime.
• Close finish — one heads-up when it’s tight late in the 4th or overtime.
• Lead changes — when the lead flips.
• Final score — the result when it ends.

Choosing what you receive

Signed-in users can switch any of those categories on or off under Settings → Game alerts. It applies to every device where you’ve turned alerts on.

Alerts work on desktop too — just click “Notify me” and allow notifications; no install needed. On a phone, install the app first (see below) so notifications can reach you.

Every game has a chat next to the game overview: before tip-off, while it is played and for two days after the final buzzer. It is the same conversation as in the TIB app, so you talk with fans on both. To chat you need a free account and a display name, which you choose in Settings.

Private messages are for members aged 18 and over who follow each other. Your year of birth must be on your account for that; under 18, messages stay closed and everything else stays open. Your conversations are under Messages, and a member’s profile shows only their display name and avatar.

The chat and messages follow the same house rules as comments: no racism, hate or abuse. A message that breaks them is not posted.

TIB is a web app you can install to your home screen — it opens full-screen like a native app and is the way to get notifications on a phone. When it’s available you’ll see a “Get the app” prompt at the bottom of the screen.

• Android / desktop (Chrome, Edge): tap Install on the prompt (or use the browser’s install icon in the address bar). One tap and you’re done.
• iPhone / iPad: tap the Share button, then “Add to Home Screen”. This works in Safari, Chrome, and Edge on iOS.

On iPhone, notifications only work once the app has been added to the home screen — and Apple is most reliable when you add it from Safari. Open the installed app to enable alerts.

Looking for the TIB app for iPhone, or TIB Club? See The TIB apps.

The TIB app for iPhone and Android is in testing: MyTIB, live scores of your teams, game previews with directions, notifications and comments. Join the tester list and share your link to move up. Testers are let in in rounds: when it is your turn, you get an e-mail with the link to install it.

An account is free and unlocks following, favourites, and fine-grained alert control. You can sign in with a one-time email code, with Apple or with Google, and optionally set a password.

One account for the website and the apps. Signed up with Apple in the TIB app? Choose Continue with Apple on the login page and use the same Apple ID: you land in the same account, with the same follows and messages. Apple can share a different email address with us than your usual one (for example with Hide My Email). If you later sign in with your own address, you can end up with a second account, so stick to one way of signing in.

Ended up with two accounts, say one from Apple and one from your email address? We can merge them into one. Mail us at hello@thisisbasketball.be with the email addresses of both accounts and tell us which one you want to keep.

Your dashboard collects your follows and favourites; Settings is where you set your display name, language, notification preferences (weekly stat digest + game alerts), and manage your sign-in methods and data.

Three controls in the header (and the mobile menu) tailor the site to you:

• Language — switch between English, Dutch, and French. Your choice is remembered.
• Light / dark — the sun/moon toggle switches theme.
• Text size — the site uses large, easy-to-read text by default. Prefer it smaller? Change it under Settings → Text size.

The site pulls in basketball headlines from trusted sources and publishes its own articles and recaps. Articles are linked to the games, players, and teams they’re about, so a game recap shows up right on that game’s page. Where a broadcaster streams a game, a watch link is matched to the game page automatically.

TIB is built in the open. On the Roadmap you can suggest a feature and vote on ideas others have submitted — it genuinely steers what gets built next. (Submitting and voting needs a free account.)

We use only strictly-necessary cookies to run the site, plus — only with your consent— analytics to understand how it’s used. You choose on first visit and can change it anytime via “Cookie settings” in the footer. If you have an account, you can export or delete your data from Settings. See the Privacy Policy for the details.

Comments and live chat follow our house rules: keep it sporting, no insults, hate or personal details, and talk about young players’ game, never about them as a person. You accept them when you create an account, or once before your first comment.

A question, a problem with your account or the app, or something on the site that is not right? Mail us at hello@thisisbasketball.be. For a privacy request (access, export, erasure), write to privacy@thisisbasketball.be.

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