People here ofte refer to ESPN's Defensive Real Plus Minus (which I personally don't like at all) or just Defensive Box Plus Minus in general but the consensus is that defense is pretty difficult to rate in a stat. However when you look at the Career Leaderboard for Defensive Box Plus Minus you will find great defender after great defender. NBA Home Scores Schedule Standings Stats Teams Players Daily Lines More In ESPN The Magazine, Peter Keating investigates the efficacy of the plus/minus statistic and its utility in the Checkout the latest stats of Jevon Carter. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, shoots, school and more on Basketball-Reference.com Real plus minus, made by espn, google it for the list, best/most predictive all in one stat we currently have access to, is a combination of box score (e.g. BPM) and RAPM aka improved plus minus which solves for the impact of individual players. Happy to answer more questions about this stuff. His plus/minus in crunch time minutes, per NBA.com, led the league. He's the clear sentimental favorite, having finished behind Jokić the past two seasons. If he wins, he's earned it. The latest all-in-one NBA player metrics were compared in terms of accuracy with a focus on the modern era. The often-used retrodiction test was performed to make the comparison. New metrics were used for the first time in such an analysis, namely Real Plus-Minus (RPM), RAPTOR, Box Plus-Minus 2.0 (BPM), and Estimated Plus-Minus (EPM). .

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