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Since 1973-74 there have only been 6 full seasons of a player having a 12+ box plus/minus — Jokic is on pace for his 4th (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Basketball_Reference@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Source: https://stathead.com/tiny/sB4q2

Context: Box Plus/Minus (BPM) is a basketball box score-based metric that estimates a basketball player’s contribution to the team when that player is on the court.

Rk	Player	BPM	Season
1	Nikola Jokic	14.6	2023-24
2	Nikola Jokic	13.7	2021-22
3	LeBron James	13.2	2008-09
4	Nikola Jokic	13.0	2022-23
5	Michael Jordan	13.0	1987-88
6	Nikola Jokic	12.1	2020-21
7	Michael Jordan	12.0	1990-91

Also h/t Andy Bailey on this find!

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[–] MrAppleSpoink@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Question, why are we still using box score metrics when so much tracking data is available? Things like EPM are so much better yet we practically refuse to use them for some reason.

[–] Zombiepirate86@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

EPM is a fantasy sports based model that is forward predicting with seasonality. It spits out a number that essentially ranks who the model thinks is going to have a better next game.

BPM is a backwards facing model that tries to tell you who has had a better season so far.

For almost all of these types of posts BPM is better, because you are asking who has been better so far not who is going to do better next game MJ or Jokic.