About Forty-One

What this magazine covers, where its archive came from and why the subject got wider. Forty-One began as one player’s own title and now reads the game around him: the court, the people in it, the campus programmes, the numbers and the business. Nothing published before the relaunch was deleted, moved or renamed.

Forty-One is a magazine about basketball and about the apparatus that puts basketball in front of people: broadcast deals, commentary, highlight culture, statistics and the money that moves around all of it.

Where the archive came from

This site began as a print-style magazine attached to a basketball foundation. That work is still here, in full, at its original addresses — several hundred German and English pages about gyms, school programmes, grant recipients, coaches and players. None of it was deleted, renamed or redirected when the magazine widened its subject. You can read the whole thing from the index, and the oldest and largest part of it sits in Campus.

What changed

What changed is the scope. A magazine that only covered one foundation's programmes could not say much about why a possession is worth 1.1 points, why a broadcaster pays what it pays, or why a win probability on screen is not the same claim as a prediction. Those are now sections of their own: The Court for the game, Media for how it is shown, Numbers for how it is counted, and Talking Points for argument.

What this magazine is not

It is not a tipster service and it does not sell picks. The Market section describes how betting and casino operators, payment rails and withdrawal mechanics actually work, because that machinery is now part of how sport reaches an audience and readers ask about it. Describing a thing is not recommending it.

Corrections

Every page carries the date it was published. When a page is wrong we change the page and say what changed rather than quietly editing it. How we source and how we correct is written out in How we work.