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I think it's more a result of players experience and ratings rather than a factor. Player skills + matchup --> Ratings --> +/-

mmmm i dont think so.
Its the 'Efficiency' rating as far as i understand it.

Which, im 99% sure is the point differential for a player when he is on the court. As explained in posts above.

They use this in the NBA as a measure of a players influence on the game.
However, in NBA a backup PG will spend more time with starters/other good players, when compared to BB. (In my personal experience)

So a backup PG in NBA probably has a season average of +2.5 whilst someone like Derrick Rose has a +/- of + 21.88 (dunno who his backup is, but Ronnie Brewer came off the bench last year, and his +/- was 6.06)

In BB, i find most of my backups do sub in with other backups (which is just due to my lineup settigns).... but this does mean, that if you had a season +/- average, it would probably be in the negative for a backup. just cause they are so crap in comparison :)

In fact, on buzzer-manager, this stat is available. Its called 'Efficiency '

Please someone correct me if im babbling.

I don't quite think so. I believe the +/- is merely the point differential while the player is on the court.

The question I thought I was answering was whether +/- factors into the "rating" statistic, I'm merely suggesting that I think rating is more likely to project +/- than +/- projecting the rating.

yep ill put my hand up to that one. I fully did not read the entire thread properly, so yer, my apologies on that one!

I'm not sure, but somewhere a guy wrote about +/- in NBA showing player's ability to play defense. Of course +/- depends on team effort, but...

well actually you might not have been so wrong there, i do correct myself again.

i got curious about this definition when i got home, so i checked out the NBA's official defintion.

NBA's efficiency rating (PTS + REB + AST + STL + BLK - FG missed - FT missed - TO)

So i double checked a game of BB, did the sum above and got a different number to the +/- that was listed against the player

So i can only assume that +/- is the team score differential for that player when he is on the court, which is a different stat to what is in the NBA.

Yeah on here its just the score differential.

Yeah, like those players that go in between free throws

Yeah, like those players that go in between free throws