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Team Minutes and the stats that need them

Minutes come from games set up with player minutes enabled, they are not entered by hand. Here is what that unlocks and how to get it turned on.

📍 Where to find it: stats.sportsvisio.com → open a team → Minutes Matrix. The link only appears if the team has games with player minutes enabled.

Some advanced stats need to know how long each player was on the court. Those stats only appear when a game was set up with player minutes enabled.

You do not enter minutes yourself

This is the part people get wrong, and it is worth being clear about. There is no way to type minutes in. The Minutes Matrix is a read-only view. Minutes arrive with the game, because player minutes are enabled on the game when it is set up.

So if the numbers are missing, the fix is not data entry. It is getting minutes enabled on your games.

What the Minutes Matrix shows

A grid of your players against your games, with the minutes recorded for each. Use it to check which games have minutes and which do not.

What minutes unlock

With minutes present, these appear on player and team pages:

  • MPG, minutes per game

  • POSS, possessions

  • AST%, assist percentage

  • ORtg and DRtg, offensive and defensive rating

  • +/-, plus/minus

  • Per 40 Minutes, per-40 rates on the player page

Without minutes those columns stay blank. Everything else, points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, shooting percentages, works exactly as normal. See Advanced and minutes-based stats.

If only some games have minutes

Minutes are enabled per game, so a season can be mixed. Minutes-based stats will reflect only the games that have them, which means a season average can look low if half the games are missing minutes. The Minutes Matrix is where you can see which is which.

How to get minutes enabled

Email customersuccess@sportsvisio.com with your program name and which season you want it for. It is set up at the game level, so it is worth asking before a season starts rather than after.

Why don’t I see the Minutes Matrix at all?

  • None of your games have minutes enabled. The link is hidden until at least one does.

  • Your program is volleyball. Minutes are a basketball-family feature, so basketball and 3x3 only.

See Why can’t I see this team, game, or feature? for the other reasons things stay hidden.

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