NBA stats, explained!
Get started with NBA stats, metrics, and analytics with explanations, calculations, formulas, and in-depth articles presented in a simple way. The ability to read NBA stats can help you, as a fan, develop a better understanding evaluation of team and player performance.
With our Analytics-101primer, become familiar with the standard statistics and metrics that are used commonly throughout the league. In the game of basketball, advanced NBA stats can provide a more in-depth view of the contributions that player makes to their team. Identifying the strengths and limitations of a player or a team will provide you with insights and enjoy the game more than ever.
Basketball Player Evaluation Metrics
- Adjusted Player Efficiency Rating (APER)
- Adjusted Plus-Minus (APM)
- Approximate Value (AV)
- Assist Percentage
- Box Plus-Minus (BPM)
- CARMELO
- Daily Updated Ranking of Individual Performance (DRIP)
- DARKO (DPM)
- Defensive Plus-Minus (DPM)
- Defensive Rating
- Defensive Stop
- Diamond Rating
- Effective Field Goal Percentage (eFG%)
- Estimated Plus-Minus (EPM)
- Fantasy Points Scored for DraftKings (DK FPTS)
- Fantasy Points Scored for FanDuel (FD FPTS)
- Floor Impact Counter (FIC)
- Game Score
- Individual Floor Percentage
- Individual Player Value (IPV)
- LEBRON
- NBA Efficiency
- NBA Plus-Minus and Player Impact Metrics: The Complete Guide
- Net Plus-Minus (Roland Rating)
- Net Points
- Non-Scoring Player Possessions
- Offensive Conversion Rate
- Offensive Rating
- Per-Minute Ratings
- Personal Foul Efficiency
- Player Efficiency Rating (PER)
- Player Impact Estimate (PIE)
- Player Tracking Plus Minus (PT-PM)
- Points Created
- Points Per Possession (PPP)
- Points Per Shot Attempt (PTS/FGA)
- Points Produced
- Position Adjusted Win Score (PAWS)
- Quantified Shooter Impact (qSI)
- Quantified Shot Quality (qSQ)
- RAPTOR
- Real Plus-Minus (RPM)
- Rebound Percentage
- Regularized Adjusted Plus Minus (RAPM)
- Scoring Player Possessions
- Seasons Left
- Simple Projection System (SPS)
- Simple Rating System (SRS)
- Statistical Player Value, SPV
- Statistical Plus-Minus (SPM)
- Steal Percentage
- Tendex
- Total Player Possessions
- Touches
- Trade Value
- True Shooting Percentage (TS%)
- Turnover Ratio
- Usage Rate
- Versatility Index
- Win Probability Added (WPA)
- Win Score
- Win Share (WS/48)
- Wins Above Replacement Player (WARP)
Basketball Team Evaluation Metrics
- Adjusted Efficiency Differential (AED)
- Balanced Scoring
- Competitive Balance Ratio (CBR)
- Correlated Gaussian Winning Percentage
- Defense Versus Position (DvP)
- Defensive Efficiency
- Defensive Rebounding Percentage
- Effective Age
- Efficiency Differential
- Expected Winning Percentage (Log 5)
- Four Factors
- Free Throw Rate
- Herfindahl Index (HHI)
- Home Court Advantage (HCA)
- Logistic Regression Markov Chain (LRMC)
- Measuring Transition Defense
- Measuring Transition Offense
- Offensive Efficiency
- Offensive Rebounding Percentage
- Pace
- Play Percent
- Point Differential
- Points Off Turnovers
- Possession
- Power Rankings
- Projected Winning Percentage
- Pythagorean Winning Percentage
- Relative Percentage Index (RPI)
- Strength Of Schedule (SOS)
- Value of Ball Possession (VBP)
- Wins Produced
NBA MoneyBall
- Advanced Scout
- Analytics Movement in the NBA
- APBRmetrics
- Basketball On Paper
- Bayesian Networks
- Big Data & Advanced Analytics Summit
- Bill James
- Box Score Data
- Dean Oliver
- DFS Data
- Front Office Staff of NBA Teams
- Game Flow Chart
- How the NBA Schedule is Made
- Jeff Sagarin
- John Hollinger
- Linear Regression
- Machine Learning Systems in Sports
- Martin Manley
- MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC)
- NBA CourtOptix
- NBA Play by Play Data
- NBA Teams That Have Analytics Department
- nba.com/stats (Formerly StatsCube)
- Neural Networks
- New England Statistics Symposium NESSIS
- Pro Basketball Forecast
- Regression To The Mean
- The Hot Hand Myth
- The Price of Anarchy
- Trade-off Between Usage and Efficiency
- Winwal
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