About Hoops Menu

The desk

Hoops Menu is a curated basketball schedule desk. It answers one question — what's worth watching tonight — rather than trying to be a stats encyclopedia. It covers the NBA, the WNBA, the G League, and the summer leagues (Las Vegas, California Classic, Utah) on one board.

It's one person's editorial desk, built and run solo as an independent project.

How it's made

Every game gets its own interest score, built from the matchup and the schedule — how close the teams are, who's hot, who's hurt, how far each side traveled to get there. The full method is public at How we score games.

The schedule itself gets the same treatment: travel miles, rest days, back-to-backs — the context a box score never shows. That's the travel desk, and its dataset is public too, documented at /data/travel.

Scores and blurbs start as a machine draft, pulled from official NBA and WNBA stats feeds and ESPN's public feeds — then a human curates the desk before anything publishes. Scores and standings keep updating through the night as games go final.

Who's behind it

I'm Ben Weisel. I build and run Hoops Menu myself — the pipeline, the site, and the nightly curation — as an independent project, not a company.

I wanted a basketball schedule that reads like a sports section, not a dashboard, so that's the look I built: print-newspaper style, on purpose.

Hoops Menu is free to read. Create an account for a weekly email digest — that's the only thing behind a sign-in.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or tips? Email me directly at hello@hoopsmenu.com.