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Best all-in-one advance metric to use now that 538’s RAPTOR has been discontinued? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by asapfetty@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Unfortunately 538’s RAPTOR will not be updated this season. While it wasn’t the best metric I have been using it for years and it had been doing a decent job at analyzing a players impact on both sides of the ball.

I’ve been trying to find another all-in-one metric to use now that RAPTOR is gone. EPM is the other metric I usually use, but that hasn’t been updated yet.

What advance metric do you think is the best to capture a current season a player is having?

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[–] bb1432@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I do miss RAPTOR, because it allowed you to just look at the box score component or the on/off component, which I don't think most of the all-in-one metrics do. You could see, easily, which guys were being helped or hurt most by which piece, and then look for something. Guy has a bad on/off RAPTOR? Look at the lineup data, where's he playing his minutes? Who's in when he's out? Does the team as a whole play better or worse when he's on the floor, and if so, why? Is it because of him, or is he just riding the bus?

You can look at the guys with good On/Off stuff and bad box score stuff and see whether a guy is just playing with good players or on a good team...or is he doing a lot of little, impactful things that are not captured in a box score?

It's not that these stats tell you whether a guy is good or not...they point to something that you should then look for.