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The Australian name database is hilarious. Yes I do realise that all the names are real and Australia is maybe the most multi-cultural nation in the world. It is just funny when you look at an Australian basketball team in Buzzerbeater they will have 1 each of Mongolian, Icelandic, Nigerian, Liberian, Pakistani, Guatemalian etc names all of in total which probably make up less than 1% of the population and 0.00001% of the basketballers. Whereas the half of the population that comes from a British background probably has one name on the roster. Most Aussie basketballers tend to have if not British then Eastern European names - Andrew Bogut is the most recent example.

As for the 2.5% of the population that come from an indigenous background I have only ever once seen one player that seemed like an Aboriginal or Torries Straight Islander which is funny considering 2 out of the 4 Australian players recently playing in the NBA are (Patty Mills and Nathan Jawai).

And I agree with a previous person that noted how funny it is to see African or Asian teams full of players with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Australia uses 55% from the Australian/NZ list and 14% from the English list, so these databases account for nearly 70% of the Australian players.

I don't think it upsets or bothers anyone. It is just funny that 50% of Aussie players have names I have never, ever heard before and you almost never see a Jones, Brown or Smith.

(10840604)

100% true blue Aussie bogan name.

Deutschland NT player Sezen Uygarli is actually Turkish like Mesut Özil :)

Last edited by кєяєм at 1/25/2011 6:37:38 AM

Yeah Major is unique talent...but..
(11099800) I can't understand how this is a name?? is he is half robot half man created by scientist in some underground ?

that number is a number of a try to clone the real subotic, that actually worked.

Last edited by Rycka at 1/25/2011 3:11:40 PM

As WallyOop already said, All name databases are editable by the LAs and GMs.

If you find many wrong names or you think most of the database is wrong, please contact us directly if you know a better name database so that we can see if we can replace it. Otherwise, please try to improve it manually with help from the LAs or GMs.

i had a conversation with LA. he said, the panel to edit the names and last names are very time consuming to edit. because names and last names, have more than one entry (the same name for example is listed more than 10-50 times, to create rarity and frequency of the name). and you can edit only one at a time. so the panel is useless for such work. as i understand, the names should be stored at database. would it be possible to write a procedure and save the names list data, for example in a tab or comma delimited txt format, so you could find all & replace. then bring it back to db?