Her Hoop Stats Fifth Anniversary Party
Join us for a night of women's basketball trivia, funny anecdotes, and more as we celebrate our fifth anniversary!
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Five years! It’s hard to believe that the Her Hoop Stats site launched roughly five years ago to provide a reliable, user-friendly source of women’s basketball data and, by extension, unlock better insight into women’s basketball. The goal remains the same today, but over the last five years, we’ve also implemented several new features to our stats site, greatly expanded our content offerings, and increased the size of our team. None of this would have been remotely possible without the contributions of the dozens of dedicated Her Hoop Stats volunteers and the support of you, the women’s basketball community. Thank you!
Given how critical a role you all played in us reaching our fifth anniversary, we invite you all to celebrate with us tonight on our YouTube channel at 8 p.m. Eastern. This virtual party will feature a women’s basketball-themed trivia game interspersed with anecdotes from Her Hoop Stats team members (past and present) about their time with the team.
That’s the tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) version of tonight’s festivities. For those interested in understanding more about the trivia game’s mechanics, please continue reading below. Otherwise, we hope to see you all tonight!
Her Hoop Stats Trivia Game
So, how exactly is this virtual trivia game going to work, you may be asking? How do I submit responses? What will the question topics be? How do I know people won’t cheat?
All great questions. And while I will provide answers to these during tonight’s live stream, it will be helpful if at least some people in the audience are familiar with the ins and outs.
Game Structure
The structure of the game is as follows. There are two main rounds with a total of eight questions (i.e., four questions per round). For these eight questions, you can wager points 1 through 8 for each question. However, you may only use each point value once per game. If you’re confident in your answer, wager high, if not, wager low. After questions 4 and 8 there will be a Mystery Round, a four-question bonus round with a coherent theme. Lastly, after the second Mystery Round, it’s all going to come down to one final question where you’ll make a wager (up to 15 points) based on the final category and the standings, not totally unlike Final Jeopardy!
Submitting Answers
Submitting responses is super straightforward thanks to our friends at Sporcle and their digital answering system. All you have to do is go to the website playquiz.live. Once there, you’ll be prompted to enter a name, the number of players on your team (we imagine most players will play individually tonight), and, most importantly, a four-digit code. We’ll provide the four-digit code during the broadcast. You’ll submit all of your answers – and make wagers where necessary – using Sporcle’s digital answering system.
Question Topics
Questions will cover a variety of content related to college and professional women’s basketball. Sorry, that’s as specific as we’d like to be at this point!
Cheating
So, how do we know people won’t cheat (e.g., using Google, Bing, Ask Jeeves, if that’s your jam for whatever reason)? Given that you’re Her Hoop Stats supporters, we know you’re all honest people who would never do such a thing, right? The truth is that it’s super easy to cheat in a virtual game, and we really have no way of preventing it from happening. All we can ask you to do is recognize that it’s a fun game with relatively low stakes that’s free to play.
If you’ve read this far, hopefully, the information above has cleared a few things up about the game. If instead, you’re thoroughly confused and it sounds more like a game of Bamboozled à la Friends, please accept our apologies (and we promise it will make more sense when we explain things live and/or once you actually start the game). If you have any questions about any of the information above, let us know in the comments below. See you tonight!
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