Points over Par
March 15, 2012 in NBA, Quick Hitters by eric
Wages of Wins has a new metric: Points over Par. As best I can tell, it is essentially a player’s +/-, adjusted for what the average player would have done in their position. Could be cool looking at it each game and comparing within a team. Obviously the cross-team comparisons are flawed just because a good player on a bad team will still be outscored and have a negative PoP.
UPDATE: turns out that’s not right (thanks Dre!), PoP gives you the number of points a player is worth per game, above or below the average player. So a PoP of 3 means that the player was worth 3 more points than the average player.
NerdNumbers.com has these updated daily if you're interested.
Eric, that's not quite right. Points over par is using the player's box score and returning the number of points a player is worth a game. It is not using the +/- stat at all. It does adjust for an average player. So an "average" player earns 0 points.