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Message: [QUOTE="moqui, post: 142284, member: 214"] John Hollinger created Player Efficiency Ratings for the NBA a while back, and in recent years he has been doing it [URL='http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/hollinger/statistics']for college players[/URL] as well. Here is [URL='http://The player efficiency rating (PER) is a rating of a player's per-minute productivity. To generate PER, I created formulas -- outlined in tortuous detail in my book "Pro Basketball Forecast" -- that return a value for each of a player's accomplishments. That includes positive accomplishments such as field goals, free throws, 3-pointers, assists, rebounds, blocks and steals, and negative ones such as missed shots, turnovers and personal fouls. Two important things to remember about PER are that it's per-minute and is pace-adjusted. Because it's a per-minute measure, it allows us to compare, say, Steve Blake and Derek Fisher, even though there is a disparity in their minutes played. I also adjust each player's rating for his team's pace, so that players on a slow-paced team like Detroit aren't penalized just because their team has fewer possessions than a fast-paced team such as Golden State. Bear in mind that PER is not the final, once-and-for-all evaluation of a player's accomplishments during the season. This is especially true for defensive specialists -- such as Quinton Ross and Jason Collins -- who don't get many blocks or steals. What PER can do, however, is summarize a player's statistical accomplishments in a single number. That allows us to unify the disparate data on each player we try to track in our heads (e.g., Corey Maggette: free-throw machine, good rebounder, decent shooter, poor passer, etc.) so that we can move on to evaluating what might be missing from the stats. I set the league average in PER to 15.00 every season.']Hollinger's [/URL][URL='http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&id=2850240']thumbnail description of the tool[/URL]: In his national rankings, Syracuse has two players in the top 100 - Southerland and Waiters are in the top 15 (Missouri is the only other program that can say that with 2 players in the top 10). But the interesting thing is looking at his [URL='http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/hollinger/statistics/_/group/4']Big East rankings[/URL]. If you figure an average of 10 scholarship players per team in a 16 team league, there are roughly 160 BE players; Hollinger ranks 100 of them. All 10 of Syracuse's scholarship players have a PER higher than the "average" mark of 15 (Rak comes in at 15.02, ranked 81st in the conference). Syracuse has 5 of the top 16 ranked players in the BE; nobody else has more than 2. SU's players in order: 1. Southerland, 31.44 3. Waiters, 29.83 13. Jardine, 23.88 15. Joseph, 23.41 16. Triche, 23.32 32. Melo, 21.16 43. Keita, 19.46 50. Fair, 18.56 54. Carter-Williams, 18.26 81. Christmas, 15.02 by the way, Pre-Season Big East Player of the Year Ashton Gibbs sits at #51 with a PER of 18.36 [/QUOTE]

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