Advanced statistics in basketball

Advanced statistics (also known as analytics or APBRmetrics) in basketball refers to the analysis of basketball statistics using objective evidence.[1] APBRmetrics takes its name from the acronym APBR, which stands for the Association for Professional Basketball Research.[2]

According to The Sporting News, the APBRmetrics message board was "the birthplace of basketball analytics".[3]

Advanced basketball statistics include effective field goal percentage (eFG%), true shooting percentage (TS%), (on-court/off-court) plus–minus, adjusted plus-minus (APM), real plus/minus (RPM), player efficiency rating (PER), offense efficiency rating, offensive rating, defensive rating, similarity score, tendex, and player tracking.[4]

A more complete explanation of basketball analytics is available in "A Starting Point for Analyzing Basketball Statistics" in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.[5]

  1. ^ "NBA.com/Stats Frequently Asked Questions". NBA.com.
  2. ^ "APBRmetrics - NBAstuffer". www.nbastuffer.com. May 8, 2017.
  3. ^ "The birthplace of basketball analytics: Before the chaos of NBA Twitter, one message board quietly kicked off a stats revolution". www.sportingnews.com. November 18, 2022.
  4. ^ "An Introduction to Advanced Basketball Statistics: Individual Statistics – Northwestern Sports Analytics Group". sites.northwestern.edu.
  5. ^ Kubatko, Justin; Oliver, Dean; Pelton, Kevin & Rosenbaum, Dan T (2007). "A Starting Point for Analyzing Basketball Statistics". Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. 3 (3 (Article 1)). doi:10.2202/1559-0410.1070. S2CID 121583997. Archived from the original on 2007-12-26. Retrieved 2007-10-23.