Statistics inbasketball are kept to evaluate a player's or a team's performance.
Examples of basketball statistics include:
Averagespergame are denoted by*PG, e.g. PPG (points), BLKPG or BPG (blocks), STPG or SPG (steals), APG (assists), RPG (rebounds) and MPG (minutes). Sometime the players statistics are divided by minutes played and multiplied by 48 minutes (had he played the entire game), denoted by* per 48 min. or*48M.
A player who makes double digits in a game in any two of the PTS, REB, AST, STL, and BLK statistics is said to make adouble double; in three statistics, atriple double; in four statistics, aquadruple double. A quadruple double is extremely rare (and has only occurred four times in the NBA). There is also a 5x5, when a player records at least a 5 in each of the 5 statistics.[1]
TheNBA also posts to the statistics section of its Web site a simple compositeefficiency statistic, denoted EFF and derived by the formula, ((Points + Rebounds + Assists + Steals + Blocks) − ((Field Goals Attempted − Field Goals Made) + (Free Throws Attempted − Free Throws Made) + Turnovers)).[2] While conveniently distilling most of a player's key statistics in one numerical score, the formula is not highly regarded by the statistics community, with the alternativePlayer Efficiency Rating developed by ESPNbasketball statisticianJohn Hollinger being more widely used to compare the overall efficiency of players.
Examples oftempo-free statistics including the following[3][4]
Infantasy basketball,[5] statistics are used in a formula as the measurement of a player's performance.
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