APBRmetrics

Hey, so I was just poking around excel with the 2011 season and wanted to get input for a stat I just made for NBA players scoring. My idea is that there are two ways in which players scoring can be judged: 1.) There ability to actually score and 2.) the efficiency in which they do it. So All I did ...

I think a cool stat that could represent this would be "time with with ball." So you could measure how long each player has the ball on each possession, sort of like a more detailed version of the usage rate. That way players who do not pass the ball as much would be revealed!

The offensive rating is calculated as: (Points Produced / Individual Possessions) x 100 Where points produced are effected by Field Goals, Free Throws, Assists, and offensive rebounds while individual possesions include all scoring possesions plus missed shots the defense rebounds, and turnovers. So...

Where do you guys go to find all of this information? Do you just copy it and move it into your own computer on excel or R? I've been using basketball reference but I am not too efficient with it at all

Ok great, thanks for directing me to that. I love this website it is so cool finding a place where people talk about this

Hello, My name is Lee Richardson and this is my first post on the site. I'm a college statistics major and am pretty obsessed with basketball statistics. I just finished reading basketball on paper and it was the best/most interesting book I've ever read. Today my roommates and I were arguing over K...