OVER THE PAST DECADE, basketball statheads have hotly debated a metric that sabermetrician Tom Tango calls a With or Without You stat: plus/minus. Plus/minus looks at a team's point differential when ...

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 ...

The 2019-20 NHL season quietly marked the 60th anniversary of that most-hated, yet constantly used statistic in hockey: plus-minus. It’s virtually impossible to find someone willing to publicly defend ...

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Take a closer look at the top 10 guards in plus/minus per game so far this season. Brian Martin, for NBA.com Golden State’s Stephen Curry and Milwaukee’s George Hill rank first and second, ...

The basketball coaches at Santa Monica College had this kid. A wisp of a player at 5 feet 3, he wasn’t a particularly strong shooter and didn’t score much. What he lacked in skill he more than ...