Coach Odom’s half time adjustments. Virginia was getting beaten physically in the first half, so Odom had the team attack the rim. On Virginia’s first three possessions of the second half, Grunloh, De ...
Plus/minus has become a widely referenced stat in modern basketball because it captures team performance with a player on the floor, rather than isolating individual box score achievements. While it ...
Thijs De Ridder and Malik Thomas came roaring out of the gate as Virginia opened up a 34-point 1st half lead en route to a 94 ...
After a tight first half, the Virginia Cavaliers separated from the Syracuse Orange for the 72 – 59 victory.
When real plus-minus debuted on ESPN.com's NBA page in April 2014, then-Golden State Warriors reserve Draymond Green had yet to crack double-digit NBA starts. His breakthrough performance in the ...
Plus-minus is a stat that measures — for a given player — the score differential between the player’s team and his opponents, during the time while he is on the court. It’s a pretty common metric ...
The Golden State Warriors second-year guard tops all players in the NBA in plus/minus, a stat that measures how many points a team is better than their opponents while a player is on the floor.
Andy Hill has no trouble remembering, nearly a half-century later, when he first came to believe he might have conceived something worthwhile when he introduced the “Team Contribution Index” to ...
Red Zone Plus/Minus ranks NFL teams' red zone efficiency on offense and defense. Eight of the top 10 teams are playoff-bound; notable exceptions are Lions and Colts. Teams with positive plus/minus ...
The plus/minus rating is a useful statistic, but it is often overrated. A number of factors -- many of them out of a player's control -- affect a player's rating, which is why you can't take the ...
Teams with worst red zone plus/minus have combined 4-20 record after Week 6. Some teams outperform or underperform their red zone stats compared to win-loss records. Colts lead NFL with 29 red-zone ...