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Can someone share season-to-date individual plus/minus stats? Couldn't find 'em via the Google thing... TIA!
With all due respect I totally disagree and could argue that +/- is perhaps THE most important statistic. The game is about the score. I want guys that help the good guys outscore their opponents when they are on the floor.there's better stats out there. not sure +/- has any value.
With all due respect I totally disagree and could argue that +/- is perhaps THE most important statistic. The game is about the score. I want guys that help the good guys outscore their opponents when they are on the floor.
With all due respect I totally disagree and could argue that +/- is perhaps THE most important statistic. The game is about the score. I want guys that help the good guys outscore their opponents when they are on the floor.
That was great. Thanks for sharing. I’ve always been skeptical of +/-, so it was good to see an objective look at it. Respect randomness.
I would expect +/- to correlate with player quality, but with a large standard deviation. There are other, better metrics with a smaller variance.My opinion - standard +/- totally eschews context. There are four other players on the court that are having an impact on that metric. Does Kevon Looney having a +22 mean anything if he misses all his field goal attempts and doesn’t grab any rebounds, but Steph Curry hits 11 three-pointers that game? To me it’s like the RBI in baseball. Relies way too much on the results of other players to be a meaningful representation of a single player’s impact on the game.
I rest my caseI asked because it was in the box score (on the Score app) for the Seton Hall game and it made me pause when I looked at the UConn plus/minuses. Adams was a -11, Carlton was a -10, Cole a -7. The only positives were Jackson at +7 and Gaffney at +4.
I'm a believer in longitudinal +/- as a semi-important stat - certainly over an 80-game season in the NBA. Not to compare specific players on different teams, but rather within a team's roster.
That said, for at least this one game it seemed accurate as to how the game played out on the floor for 40 minutes.
According to Pomeroy, it makes no sense to rest one's case based on single-game +/-. But hopefully you're just being cheeky.I rest my case
I would expect +/- to correlate with player quality, but with a large standard deviation. There are other, better metrics with a smaller variance.