Atlanta had 11 players finish with a negative plus-minus in its preseason loss to Memphis, an early sign worth watching as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A common lament of fans of any sport is that box scores can only give you so much information. Some of the traditional box score information isn’t even very useful. In basketball, one of the canonical ...

Grant Hill recalls Christian Laettner bullying his Duke teammates: "He could fight, and he always wanted to fight" Laettner led Duke to back-to-back NCAA titles in 1991 and 1992, and had an ...

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 ...