We’re constantly adding features and functionality to the database, so here’s a quick review of some of the new stuff that we’ve built. As always, if someone in the racquetball community wants a Report that isn’t readily available, ping me and we’ll see if I can code it up.
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1. Added a slew of Mixed Junior Doubles as a pull down
In the Junior Databases, we have a number of Category-driven reports so you can see (for example) all US 18U singles winners, or all IRF 16U doubles winners. Now that we’re seeing more Mixed Doubles play at US Nationals and at Worlds, I’ve added Mixed as a category where appropriate. We still haven’t seen Mixed junior competitions in Canada or Mexico; so this is just US and IRF for now.
Reminder: we only store the finals of Junior Doubles to capture the winners.
Here’s an example of all Mixed 21U finals across both US and IRF Junior Worlds: https://rball.pro/64091b
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2. Improvements to Ages of Tourney Winners report
There’s a cool report called “Ages of Tourney Winners” that’s existed for years that shows, for all tournament winners on tour, their debut date, the date they first won an event, their last tourney win, and their last tour appearance. I used this report often to show just how frequently Men’s tour players retire right around the age 32-34 range. There’s a slew of examples of top players who stopped playing right at this range, and the reason to me is relatively obvious: physical skills and the athleticism needed to compete generally starts to degrade right in that early 30s range, and suddenly players go from making semis and finals to making the quarters at best and no longer really making enough money to make touring worth it.
Anyway, a conversation with @Timothy Baghurst led to adding some more columns to this report; specifically career W/L, the number of seasons on tour, and the number of tournament wins. These new fields provide great context to the rest of the age-driven data.
click here for the report for the IRT: https://rball.pro/4he
click here for the report for the LPRT: https://rball.pro/lxc
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3. Addition of Ages of Tourney Regulars Report
Another Baghurst suggestion was to provide all the above information for more than just historical tourney winners, so I took the same logic and now you can see all that information for what I call “Tour regulars,” which is defined as players who have more than 25 pro tour wins in their career. This added at least 35-40 players to each report.
click here for that report for the IRT: https://rball.pro/2b096e
click here for the report for the LPRT: https://rball.pro/4f5468
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4. More “Most Appearances since” reports.
@Adam Manilla asked me just today, “Who has the most appearances since Covid? Or in the last 10 years?” So I adapted a simple report i already had that shows the Most appearances of all time and just added the two above.
So, for the IRT, here’s Most Appearances since Covid: https://rball.pro/d755fb
And, most Appearances in the last 10 years running: https://rball.pro/83f66e
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5. Changed the IRT to go back to fall-to-spring
The new ownership group decided that they wanted to go back to a Fall to Spring schedule this summer. This means that the “2025” season no longer exists, and it will be rolled into a 1.5 year season starting Jan 1 2025 and running through next year’s US Open in June 30 2026. In order to support this, I had to change the season of all data in the database and do some quick code fixes. This temporarily made it look like the 2025 season was different from teh 2025-26 season in counting reports, but that’s fixed now.
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Anyway, that’s a quick summary of the 2025 code fixes I’ve done. Hope you enjoy this little glimpse into the sausage making of ProRacquetballStats.com .