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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

Basketball legends Michael Jordan and LeBron James, widely lauded as the greatest basketballers of all time, top the NBA’s all-time plus/minus player rankings. The metric makes use of a player’s box ...

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 ...