Andy Hill has no trouble remembering, nearly a half-century later, when he first came to believe he might have conceived something worthwhile when he introduced the “Team Contribution Index” to ...

Plus/minus has become a widely referenced stat in modern basketball because it captures team performance with a player on the floor, rather than isolating individual box score achievements. While it ...

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 when ...

The plus/minus rating is a useful statistic, but it is often overrated. A number of factors -- many of them out of a player's control -- affect a player's rating, which is why you can't take the ...

The Golden State Warriors second-year guard tops all players in the NBA in plus/minus, a stat that measures how many points a team is better than their opponents while a player is on the floor.

The 2019-20 NHL season quietly marked the 60th anniversary of that most-hated, yet constantly used statistic in hockey: plus-minus. It’s virtually impossible to find someone willing to publicly defend ...

Plus-minus betting describes the American odds format, which is synonymous with NFL spreads and totals. However, you can access plus minus odds across all sports, which provides a popular alternative ...

Stats, like any other tool, are no better than those that wield them. As we’ve entered the Big Data age we’ve witnessed more malpractice. But nothing we’ve seen is as egregious as the attempts to pass ...