Steven Stamkos was a plus-7 the previous year when he led the league with 60 goals, though he is the last Rocket Richard Trophy winner to finish with a negative rating (a minus-2 in 2009-10, when ...

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 ...

Plus-minus is an imperfect statistic, but it’s one many players use to gauge their all-around game on a given night because it’s specific to how many goals were scored by their team compared ...

When plus-minus critics scream about the stat’s uselessness, they often turn to memorable outliers. It’s possible for a player to have a sensational game and still finish as a minus: When ...

In the context of the NBA’s history, plus-minus is relatively new. It was first tracked in the 1996-97 season, and the king of the stat is Tim Duncan, who never stopped winning with the Spurs ...

Not quite a half-century ago, Andy Hill was a junior college basketball coach who came up with a new idea for a statistic. What the plus/minus rating has become in the years since still surprises him.

When real plus-minus debuted on ESPN.com's NBA page in April 2014, then-Golden State Warriors reserve Draymond Green had yet to crack double-digit NBA starts. His breakthrough performance in the ...

The same goes for his plus/minus: plus-6.4 in 2020-21 and plus-6.2 this season. Devin Booker: Booker is averaging a career-best plus-5.6 in his 42 games played for the league-leading Suns (40-9).

Former UCLA player Andy Hill developed the plus-minus statistic, which is now widely cited, to measure a player's true impact in a game.