Advanced NBA Stats - which ones do you believe in?

Ugh. PER got votes. I get it is better than nothing, but think as the game is better understood and there are better data inputs, that better models would get accepted while older models get phased out. I cringe when I see it still used.

 

First of all I think it's important to understand what the stats mean, not all of these stats are trying to tell you who the "best player" is. Some of these stats are telling you different things.

That aside, I like looking at all of them to see what the "consensus" is. There's a twitter account that does this, it looks at all of the "all-in-one" stats and averages them together for player rankings and I think that's probably the best list that you can get. In general I think there are probably some good things and some bad things in each of these stats, so averaging them together is a way to smooth that out. So I think they're all valuable.

 

Just googled it real quick and it looks like this is the most recent time he's posted it, which was last year. I don't think he's done it yet this year.

 

VORP but Playoff only. Because it is played and refreed differently. Also context matters at least as much as the stat itself.

 

TS % as well

 

whichever shows Alpi is the best player in the league

 

I don't really have the time to think about the advanced stats. It's hard enough to watch or listen to the games.

But the stats I seem to be focusing on most is the +/- from game to game. Who's trending and how over the 4 or 5 games my memory can seem to hold. I care less about the numbers in losses than I do in wins. I want the players with the highest +/- over 2 or 3 wins to get more time. Obviously I don't put anyone outside of our top 9 to even be considered.

 

Ws and Ls. Nothing can beat these stats.

 

Tari at 32 and amen at 41 is really cool to see

 

He's at #188 lol. As @astrosrule has been saying repeatedly, pretty much every advanced stat says that he sucks.