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Hockey stat, with a twist, useful in NBA, too

By John Hollinger
ESPN Insider

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

It never stops. Both fans and teams constantly crave more ways to measure how players are performing. Thus, it was perhaps inevitable that a "catch-all" stat would appear on the horizon, and recently one has. It's a powerful tool with a simple premise: Add all the points the team scores when a player is on the court, and subtract all the points the team allows when he is on the court. Subtract the latter from the former, and you end up with the player's "plus-minus" – how many points bett ...

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