PER calculator

[kbtricity]

Is there any calculator to calculate PER? Is there a specific formula for a high school PER?

[DSMok1]

Is there any calculator to calculate PER? Is there a specific formula for a high school PER?

Basketball Reference has the complete formula here: http://www.basketball-reference.com/about/per.html

I will point out that, depending on what you want this for, there are likely better (and easier to calculate) metrics available.

[DickMays]

The MagicMetric is easy to use for High School rankings as it only uses commonly available stats, and all of the coefficients can be derived for any given value of a possession. My suggestion is to use .8 points per possession as a target for high school productivity. In this case, the formula derives as:

MM8 = (1.8 FG2made) + (0.9 FreeThrowmade) + (3 FG3made) + (0.5 Rebounds) + (0.9 Assists) + (0.6
Blocks) + (.8 Steals) - (0.5 MissedFieldGoals) - (0.4 MissedFreeThows) – (.8 Turnovers)

I call this MM8 to distinguish from the normal metric for NBA and college competition based on a 1 point per possession assumption.


Paper available here: http://www.upct.es/~beside/Textos/MagicMetric.pdf

[Mike G]

Why not base this metric on the average pts/poss for each game?
If your guys average 1.0 ppp and give up 1.2 ppp, have they done better than
averaging .9 and giving up .7 ?

In the NBA, 30 teams play one another multiple times. In the amateur ranks, there's almost no limits to the relative strength of the competition.