Greatest Offensive Players Of All Time

Greatest Offensive Players Of All Time

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I put together a list of the greatest offensive players of all time using Daniel Myers' latest version of Offensive Box Plus Minus. I am just taking into account regular season production to keep it simple am using Hall Rating as I did in the All-Time list. Here it is:

Updated BPM All Time - 2015

Updated BPM All Time - 2015

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Daniel Myers, the creator of Box Plus/Minus (BPM), has recently released a new and updated version of BPM. This, along with the completion of the 2015 playoffs, led me to updating the BPM All Time list. The new version included big improvements to defense and underrates perimeter defenders far less. For the methodology, I kept it far simpler,

All-Time List based on PER (Player Efficiency Rating)

All-Time List based on PER (Player Efficiency Rating)

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As part of my on-going series on the construction of all-time lists based on various advanced metrics, I bring to you the all-time list for the highly popular statistic, PER. PER, which was created by John Hollinger, is perhaps the most well known advanced statistic today. In order to convert PER (a rate stat) to actual production, we

All-Time List based on Statistical Plus/Minus (SPM)

All-Time List based on Statistical Plus/Minus (SPM)

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Recently, I released an all-time list based on Box Plus/Minus (BPM). I went and looked at another very good statistic for player evaluation known as Statistical Plus/Minus (SPM). SPM, whose formula can be found here, belongs to the same class of stats as BPM - those that combine box score stats with plus-minus. SPM empirically performs very well and

All Time List based on Box Plus/Minus (BPM)

All Time List based on Box Plus/Minus (BPM)

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All-time lists are intended to measure a player's greatness and happen to be one of the most debated topics among NBA fans. These lists are of course a very subjective matter and an easy way to make someone angry at you.  My goal was to create an all-time list solely based on what players did on the basketball

Removing Outliers - A New Look at Kobe Bryant and Advanced Stats

Removing Outliers - A New Look at Kobe Bryant and Advanced Stats

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Recently, I went back and was looking at game logs of Kobe's prime years, namely 2000-2003 and 2005-2010. It was amazing at how consistently good Kobe was on a night to night basis. He is often criticized for things such as never shooting about 47% from the field in a season or being inefficient. This was hard to

Comparing Kobe, Lebron, and Duncan in the Playoffs Based On Impact

Comparing Kobe, Lebron, and Duncan in the Playoffs Based On Impact

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Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, and Tim Duncan are the three best players of this generation (we can count Shaq as part of the previous generation). All three have accomplished enough in their illustrious careers to be considered Top 10 players of all time. Fans constantly debate with each other about who the best player out of the three