04-08-2021, 07:09 AM
(04-08-2021, 01:58 AM)omahen Wrote: some stats are individual and some team based.
If you cannot see that EVERY stat in basketball finds its context in the swirl of ten men and two teams playing a team game with all the variables that go with it, then that is very concerning.
It is so unfair that +/- has been the whipping boy of "noise" and "context" when every single stat comes with the same baggage. There is a reason we all know that there are players who put up "empty stats" and can have lots of points and rebounds, etc., but do nothing for the team actually winning the game. The reason is that all individual stats have to be interpreted within the greater team context of simple winning and losing.