A common lament of fans of any sport is that box scores can only give you so much information. Some of the traditional box score information isn’t even very useful. In basketball, one of the canonical ...
With the Portland Trail Blazers on a downward slide at the conclusion of the 2023-24 season, plenty of questions are coming up regarding talent and suitability of players on their roster. Among the ...
The Golden State Warriors second-year guard tops all players in the NBA in plus/minus, a stat that measures how many points a team is better than their opponents while a player is on the floor.
The basketball coaches at Santa Monica College had this kid. A wisp of a player at 5 feet 3, he wasn’t a particularly strong shooter and didn’t score much. What he lacked in skill he more than ...
OVER THE PAST DECADE, basketball statheads have hotly debated a metric that sabermetrician Tom Tango calls a With or Without You stat: plus/minus. Plus/minus looks at a team's point differential when ...