MAVS 108, PELS 92

[mvossman]

Side note: Talking about more advanced +/- metrics. As far as I know Jeremias Engelmann (creator of ESPNs RPM, before they changed the prior/formula multiple times) is still one of the senior analysts. My best guess is that he is doing similar things for the Mavs.

I agree with everything you said here.  The kicker is that raw +/- takes a long, long time to normalize.  Like many seasons.  It is incredibly noisy in 1 game (and even 10 game) samples.  The advanced stats that leverage +/- do a much better job of handling smaller sample data.  The really good ones start with box score stats and then apply +/- logic looking at both teammates and opponents.  I found a really good article which goes over which are considered the best in the industry (you will notice that PER comes in last, which validates both your and my thoughts on that particular statistic).

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