List of National Basketball League (Australia) annual scoring leaders

National Basketball League awards and honors
Championship
Individual awards
Honours

In basketball, points are accumulated through free throws or field goals.[1] The National Basketball League's (NBL) scoring title is awarded to the player with the highest points per game average in a given season. The scoring title was originally determined by total points scored through the 1996 season, after which points per game was used to determine the leader instead.[2] Players who earned scoring titles before the 1984 season did not record any three-point field goals because the three-point line had just been implemented in the NBL at the start of that season.[3]

Andrew Gaze has won the most scoring titles, with 14.[2] He also holds the all-time records for total points scored (1,007; 1991)[4] and points per game (44.1; 1987)[5] in a season. Between 1986 and 2001, Gaze was the leader in either total points or points per game every season. While he led the NBL in points per game in 1987 (44.1) and 1990 (37.6), he was not the leader in total points scored. His 882 total points in 1987 were third best behind Paul Stanley (920) and James Crawford (903),[6] while his 828 points in 1990 were also third best behind Derek Rucker (865) and Wayne McDaniel (848).[7]

  1. ^ "Basketball glossary". FIBA.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2010.
  2. ^ a b "All Time Leaders". NBL.com.au. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017.
  3. ^ "NBL All-Time Statistics". aussiehoopla.com. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Andrew Gaze". musictheatreaustralia.com.au. Archived from the original on 18 August 2010. Back home in Australia in 1991 he became the first NBL player to shoot over 1,000 points in a season.
  5. ^ "History". NBL.com.au. Retrieved 1 November 2019. Gaze is the NBL's all-time leading scorer with 18,908 total points, and he led the league in scoring a record 14 times, including a League record 44.1 points per game in 1987.
  6. ^ "Compeitition Statistics for NBL 1987". SportsTG.com. Archived from the original on 1 November 2019.
  7. ^ "Compeitition Statistics for NBL 1990". SportsTG.com. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019.