September 1st each year marks the anniversary of Pistonsforum.com. The forum first opened up for registration and posting on the morning of September 1st 2005.

Since that time, we've undergone a lot of growth and developed into a substantial community of fans, opinions and information.

What started out as a simple forum has grown into a 4 sport fantasy league community, 2 sister blogs (Human Victory Cigar and Bad Boy Summer Camp), a catch all site to help members find us (www.pistonforum.com, no "s"), linkbacks from Wikipedia, Sports Illustrated, WDFN, and a strong relationship with the fan blog community (Need4Sheed, Detroit Bad Boys and others).

We've developed an active staff group to oversee, manage and advise on forum issues/initiatives. We have 14 non-staff members with more than 1,000 posts, and easily average 100 logged in member visits per day during the season, with 40 more members posting at least once daily. PF.com has gone from being a single site on a server with dozens of sites, to being the largest site on a server we lease and is 3 times more powerful than the platform we started off with on September 1st 2005.

August traditionally is our slowest month, and as we now have two of these months in the books, I have some statistical information to show the growth and reach of the forum.

August 2006
4,255 Unique Visitors with 1045 Google Searches leading to PF.com

August 2007
7,635 Unique Visitors with 2,378 Google Searches leading to PF.com

In Calendar 2007 to date, we have served 4.3 million pages. Google claims to have 77,000 pages from this forum in their search engine.

As testament to our diversity, a significant portion of our non-US/Canadian traffic comes from Australia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, China, the Czech Republic, Taiwan, Austria, Latvia, Hong Kong, Germany and Great Britain.

Everyone who has posted, linked to, volunteered or participated on the forum has had a part in developing this tremendous fan resource.

Thank you. And Happy Birthday.

awesome.. and in only 3 more days ill be celebrating my 21st birthday.

Happy Birthday pf.com!!!!

It's been a great two years. The forum is very important to me. I love the articles, friendships, and of course the fantasy leagues.

Thanks to all who have contributed to make it so special. You folks are tops.

happy birthday PF. two years of meeting new friends, it's been fun and looking forward to more birthdays....

Happy B-Day PF.Com....

I am glad I stumbled upon this group of special folks when the forum was about 5 months old. You would have never guessed it was so young. It was and still is a great forum.

Looking forward to many years of friendships, Piston discussions, off topic banter.......and good laughs!


Keep up the good work Roscoe..

Happy birthday guys. A great place were like-minded (and not so like-minded) people can come together.

Continue the great work!

I remember when Microwave first mentioned starting this forum on the detnews site. I was so sick of the hot air over there that I couldn't wait for all this to happen. It has been even better than advertised. There are a lot of great people over here and it's one of the first places I log into every day.

Well done, Roscoe, and thanks to the staff and membership for making this a great place to discuss everything from fish heads to our beloved Pistons -- and everything in between.

I was introduced to the forum in the exact same way - and it's crazy awesome that it's already been two years. Let's all go out for pizza!!!

This has been a very short two years. It seems like only yesterday but so much has happened.

This forum is still head and shoulders above most of the other ones I follow in terms of convenience and ease of use.

The guys here are pretty smart and pretty aware of all the ins and outs of sports. I still check in here several times each time I am on line, without fail.

Keep up the good work; it is an enjoyable place to visit.

oh my, time'e running pretty fast, huh? It's been 2 very nice years with all you guys. Many interesting posts and discussions, I discovered the Pistons from one more interesting perspective, thanks to this forum.
Thanks to everyone involved in this!