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Making basketball analytics accessible — advanced stats explained with real examples and player context.
Usage rate tells you how many of a team’s possessions a player finishes — the difference between a ball-dominant engine and a role-playing specialist. Here is how to read USG% and the usage-efficiency tradeoff.
PER tries to boil a whole season into one number, normalized so the league average is always 15.0. Here is how John Hollinger’s metric works, how to read it, and why analysts never trust it alone.
Field goal percentage hides free throws and three-pointers. True Shooting Percentage folds them into one number — here is exactly how TS% works, what counts as elite, and where it falls short.
