ANALYTICS 101
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| Per Minute Ratings | The metrics that evaluates a player's performance more accurately than his averages.The common notation for per-minute ratings is using per 40 minute stats.Per minutes ratings are calculated by taking the player's total in any category (points, rebounds, assists, etc.) divided by total minutes played. |
| Personal Foul Efficiency Author: D. Nelson, D. Walker | Personal Foul Efficiency measures ratio of steals plus blocks to personal fouls. Indicates how efficiently a player forces turnovers, removing the bias of jump-happy or slaptastic players who accumulate deceptive block or steal totals. Comments: Andris Biedrins’ block total seems comparable to Ben Wallace’s, until you realize that Wallace has more blocks with half the fouls. This statistic can be deceiving, since fouls may increase with defensive effort, but it is still a useful measure for comparative analysis. |
| Player Efficiency Rating (PER) Author: John Hollinger | The metric that which boils down all of a player's contributions into one number. John Hollinger's formula adds positive stats and subtracts negative ones through a statistical point value system.For more information about PER Calculation visit basketball-reference Comments: PER largely measures offensive performance. Hollinger freely admits that two of the defensive statistics it incorporates -- blocks and steals can produce a distorted picture of a player's value and that PER is not a reliable measure of a player's defensive acumen. |
| Player's Non-Scoring Possessions | A player's non-scoring possessions would be his missed field goals, plus free throws that weren't rebounded by his team, plus his turnovers.Non-Scoring Possessions Formula=(Player's Field Goal Attempts)-Player's Field Goal Made)+0.4*(Free Throw Attempts)+(Player's Turnovers) |
| Player's Scoring Possessions Author: Dean Oliver | A player's scoring possessions would be his field goals that weren't assisted on, plus a certain percentage of his field goals that were assisted on, plus a certain percentage of his assists, plus his free throws made.Scoring Possessions Formula=(Field Goals Made) - 0.37*(Field Goals Made)*Q/R + 0.37*(Player Assists) + 0.5*(Free Throws Made) where; Q=5*(Player Minutes)*(Team Assist Total)/(Team Total Minutes)-(Player Assists) |
| Player's Total Possessions Author: Dean Oliver | The metric that represents a player's total possessions in the game. In other words,a player's total possessions is the total number of how many times he ends his team's possession.Player's Total Possessions Formula=(Player's Scoring Possessions)+(Player's Non-Scoring Possessions)=(Player Field Goal Attempts)-(Player Missed Shots)*(Team Offensive Rebounding Percentage)+0.37*(Player Assists)-0.37*(Field Goals Made)*Q/R+(Player Turnovers)+0.4*(Player Free Throw Attempts) Where; Q=5*(Player Minutes)*(Team Assist Total)/(Team Total Minutes)-(Player Assists)
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| Plus-Minus | The plus-minus, a.k.a. +/-, simply keeps track of the net changes in score when a given player is either on or off the court. NBA.com has been publishing plus-minus values in official box scores since 2007-2008 season. Since the invention of basic plus minus, the plus-minus technique has been developed in order to get more accurate results. At the moment, there are 4 advanced plus minus metrics that derived from basic one.
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| Points Created Author: Bob Bellotti | Points created is a metric that evaluates overall player performance. It comprises all current primary and secondary statistical categories: points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocked shots, missed shots (both field goals and free throws), turnovers, and personal fouls. Points Created= PTS + AST * (2-VBP) + (REB + STL + BLK) * VBP -(FGMiss + FTMiss + TOV) * VBP – 0.5 * VBP * PF
It measures overall performance rather than a single skill (such as shooting) or set of skills (such as shooting, rebounding, and shot-blocking). Therefore, the result is a clear composite of a team or player's total performance. Comments: Points Created is valuable in many ways. It is comprehensive, and can be used to evaluate players and teams on any level of basketball, in any league where statistics are kept. You can use it to study one game, many games, a season, and a career. |
| Points Produced Author: Dean Oliver | Points Produced is a measure of player's offensive contribution. "Points produced" metric has been considered more important than the "points scored". A player produces points through made shots, assists, and offensive rebounds. The number of points produced by the various methods depends on the actual number of points scored and the importance of the player's contribution.Comments: The sum of all teammates' individual points produced should be very close to the number of points actually scored by the team. |
| Position Adjusted Win Score (PAWS) Author: David Berri | The "Win Score" metric that takes player's "primary position played" into account.PAWS=Position Adjusted Win Score=[(PAWS48/48)*Minutes] PAWS48 =PAWS per 48 minutes=[WS48 – Average WS48 at primary position played] WS48 =Win Score per 48 minutes |
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