About Bucstats.com

Obligatory Welcome:

Welcome to Bucstats.com! This site started off life in 2005 as an experiment in SQL and ended up being a repository for statistics about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that happened to have a blog attached to it. Now it's more of a Bucs blog with some stats on it.

You should note right now that this site is not affiliated IN ANY WAY with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers or the National Football League. I'm just a fan. If you write a letter to me thinking it will somehow get to a player, I will post it on the front page and make fun of you.

About the Stats:

The bulk of the data for this site came from the Buccaneers media guides, 1976 - present. If you know anything about those media guides, you know that the statistics aren't remarkably thorough or accurate, especially in the early years. To provide missing data and verify what I already had, I scoured and pillaged the Buc Power web site. Buc Power is absolutely, positively the most complete archive of Buccaneers information ever in the history of the universe. Paul Stewart, administrator of Buc Power and president of the Bucs UK fan club, was thoughtful enough to allow me to take whatever I needed to make this site as accurate and complete as possible. Various other statistics came from the Buccaneers web site and the NFL web site. Pictures of the various football helmets were provided by The Helmet Project and used with implicit permission as a “non-commercial” use. Team logos are the property of their respective teams and have been used without permission of any kind.

The stats kept on this site are mostly for the offensive side of the ball because, frankly, that's where most of the stats are produced. I have tried to augment them with some defensive statistics and will continue to do so, but the NFL and the Buccaneers each have different ideas of what constitutes a "tackle", so it's a little sketchy.

If you look hard enough, you will notice a few inconsistencies in the stats. There are examples where the numbers just don't add up to what they should. The explanation for most of these occurances is simply that the numbers don't add up from the sources. Even in the cases of official Bucs and NFL publications, 1 + 1 does not always equal 2. I have never heard an adequate explanation as to why. That said, those cases are still relatively small compared to the overall size of this database.

Contributions to the content of this site are always welcome. If you see something that is incorrect or missing and can prove what it should be (there's the catch), let me know and I'll give you credit for the data or the correction.

Contributors:

Chuck Jansen II supplied some interception information on the 1977 New Orleans game
Robert Krause gave me the starting QB for a 1992 game against the Cardinals
Rob Holecko sent 10 starting quarterbacks

About the Blog:

All written content on this site is Copyright ©2008 under this Creative Commons License, which basically says that you are free to reprint anything on the site, but you have to give this site credit and you can't go changing it around.

After several years of using Movable Type, I have switched the blog engine to Wordpress. The main reason was that it is written in PHP as opposed to Perl or Movable Type's own proprietary language which sucks major donkey balls. It's not quite as polished from an administrative standpoint, but it's a hell of a lot easier to work with.

When you sign up for an account on this blog, it is only to post comments. You can sign up with as much fake information as you want, I don't care. The only thing that needs to be real is your email address to verify that you're not a spambot. I will not give your email address to anyone ever. And if you are a spambot, die.

Special thanks go out to Jordan, John and The BrainStem. Their contributions to this redesign were probably more important than my own.

About the Author (fake and randomly selected):

The author is a four-foot tall Vietnamese prostitute who can contort herself into a shape resembling a dollar sign.

Feedback:

Here is just a small sampling of the comments that Bucstats gets. I tried to keep the ratio of good mail to hate mail to about what it really is, around 75%.

I really appreciate your articles. They are positive and i really like your kind of humor.

Just wanted to thank you for the site...I'm in Jersey and I'm a huge Bucs fan

Great blog man. I browse all the Buc sites I can find and this is by far the most entertaining. Keep up the good work.

just wanted to tell you that this page is the first page i checked when i get up in the morning. i check it even before i check my emails.

Dude,i love coming on bucstats to find out 411 on da bucs before almost anyone else finds out

I just wanted to say this website is fantastic and you guys love the aspect of sports I do. Makes for great reading!

I really enjoy your site. It continues, along with the St. Pete Times one, to be the most current and informative.

I enjoyed all your comments and insight on your site about the draft. Thanks.

Just wanted you to know, that I'm a big fan of your site. Now you know that you have users of your homepage in Denmark.

I read your blog daily with the unique mixture of pain, incredulity and joy that comprise a true Buc fan. Seriously, your blog is great...keep it up.

Great site!! I am adding it to my favorites and sending it also to my son in New Mexico......another major Bucs fan.

Great job with the second rate bucs website. Sure aren't enough of these on the internet

may all your mistakes be rubbed in your face

You sit back and take pot shots at people condemning them to satisfy your own judgemental jollies.

Hope you get arrested too and subject to the judicial system's bias, racism, and plain incompetence. Then maybe u will have some sympathy for human beings who get caught up and ruined by the US legal system. Shame on you.