Player Impact Estimate aka PIE, is a metric to gauge a player’s all-around contribution to the game. Almost all statistical categories in the box score are involved in the PIE formula. PIE answers what % of the events in a game each player contributed. PIE is created by the NBA and often being compared to PER. Unlike PER, PIE calculation …

Player Tracking Plus Minus (PT-PM) is Andrew Johnson’s player evaluation metric based on a combination of: Real Plus Minus (RPM), Box score data, SportVu data PT-PM is split into offense (OPT-PM) and defense (DPT-PM) in terms of estimates of a player’s impact on the floor.

Points created is a linear metric, invented by Bob Bellotti, 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. VBP: The value of ball possession is league’s average points per 100 possessions. It measures overall performance rather …

Points Per Possession (PPP), is a player evaluation metric that refers to a player’s scoring efficiency. PPP becomes more meaningful when it is broken down into events such as PPP in isolation plays, PPP in pick-and-roll situations. Related Metric: Scoring Player Possession

Points Per Shot Attempt is a player efficiency evaluation metric which is calculated by dividing the total points (2P made and 3P made) by the total field goals attempts. “Points per shot attempt” metric ignores points scored on free throws, so true shooting percentage (TS%) makes more sense if free throws should be taken into account.

Points Produced is Dean Oliver’s metric of player’s offensive contribution which has been considered more important than the individual “points scored”. It is simply just the amount of points produced by a player per 100 possessions. A player produces points through made shots, assists, and offensive rebounds. The number of points produced by the various methods depends on the actual …

Position adjusted win score, PAWS, is the Win Score metric that takes player’s “primary position played” into account.

Quantified Shooter Impact (qSI) is a metric developed by using Second Spectrum video tracking data. It simply measures the impact of the player, compared to league average. With using the video tracking data, we are able to break down effective field goal percentage to; – “quality of the shot” (toughness of the shot) – “impact of the shooter” (the ability …

Quantified Shot Quality (qSQ) is a metric developed by using Second Spectrum video tracking data. In brief, qSQ is the effective field-goal percentage when; – the type of the shot, – location of the shot, – nearby defenders have taken into account. Before video tracking era, effective field goal percentage was the most advanced metric to evaluate a shooter. With …

RAPTOR, a new statistical plus-minus method developed by FiveThirtyEight, tries to reflect how NBA players are evaluated by the front-offices in the era of player tracking. CARMELO was the 538’s first projection system, which has been replaced with RAPTOR. RAPTOR takes qualities such as height, age and draft position, awards given by the association into account. RAPTOR stands for “Robust …

Real Plus Minus (RPM) is the player’s average impact in terms of net point differential per 100 offensive and defensive possessions. RPM can be broken down into offensive and defensive metrics: Offensive Real Plus-Minus: (ORPM): Player’s average impact on his team’s offensive performance, by the points scored per 100 offensive possessions. Defensive Real Plus-Minus: (DRPM): Player’s average impact on his …

Total rebound percentage is estimated percentage of available rebounds grabbed by the player while the player is on the court.

Conventional adjusted plus-minus does a poor job of predicting the outcome of future games, particularly when you have less than a season of data. Adding regularization greatly improves accuracy, and some players’ plus-minus ratings change dramatically. The enhancement with the RAPM is a Bayesian technique in which the data is combined with theoretical beliefs regarding reasonable, large data ranges for …

Scoring player possessions would be the player’s 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. Related Metric: Points Per Possession (PPP)

Seasons Left is the estimate of how many seasons the player has left to play.

Simple Projection System (SPS) has been developed to account for aging when calculating player efficiency. SPS uses 3 years of data, with the most recent data weighted heavier. It regresses towards the mean. So the model has an age factor and the numbers are adjusted to account for age. An example of how the SPS is calculated.

Simple Rating System aka SRS, is a player evaluation metric that mainly focuses on plus-minus. The developer of SRS, Roland Beech, explains it as a player’s own stats vs. the counterpart player on the other team while he is on the court. He publishes SRS stats on his 82games.com website.