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PER
General Information The player efficiency rating (PER) is a rating of a player’s productivity. Two important things to remember about PER are that it’s per-minute and is pace-adjusted. To generate PER,...
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Advanced Statistical Plus or Minus
(http://godismyjudgeok.com/DStats/aspm-and-vorp/) Concept of Advanced Statistical Plus/Minus In order to create a box-score-based player evaluation composite statistic, some basis for the weights given...
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APM
(http://godismyjudgeok.com/DStats/2011/nba-stats/a-review-of-adjusted-plusminus-and-stabilization/) As I prepare to release my first work based on the Adjusted Plus/Minus and derivative methods, I felt...
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Value over Replacement Player (VORP)
(http://godismyjudgeok.com/DStats/aspm-and-vorp/) VORP is just calculated as (ASPM + Replacement Player Level)*%min. It’s useful for estimating overall value to the team. I generated replacement...
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Offensive Rating
In Dean’s words, “Individual offensive rating is the number of points produced by a player per hundred total individual possessions. In other words, ‘How many points is a player likely to generate when...
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NBA Metrics: Can We All Get Along?
(http://sportskeptic.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/nba-metrics-can-we-all-get-along/) With my new data set, I thought I would take a look at how the various metrics relate to each other. Please check that...
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Four Factors
How do basketball teams win games? While searching for an answer to that question, Dean Oliver identified what he called the “Four Factors of Basketball Success”: Shooting (40%) Turnovers (25%)...
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Defensive Rating
Just as Oliver’s Offensive Rating represents points produced by the player per 100 possessions consumed, his Defensive Rating estimates how many points the player allowed per 100 possessions he...
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Calculating Adjusted Plus/Minus
(http://www.countthebasket.com/blog/2008/06/01/calculating-adjusted-plus-minus/) Adjusted plus/minus is a way of rating players first developed by Wayne Winston and Jeff Sagarin in the form of their...
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Calculating Win Shares
(http://www.basketball-reference.com/about/ws.html) I. Introduction Stealing a page from baseball’s Bill James, I decided to attempt to calculate basketball Win Shares. This article will describe how...
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