Advanced stats for the NBA and other basketball leagues

On this site you can find regularized adjusted +/- (RAPM) numbers for various basketball leagues for the last 10 years. Fouling data is available for 09/10. Adjusted rebounding data is available for the last 3+ years. Euroleague data is available for the last 2 years. Spanish ACB league data is available for 2010/2011

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Power Rankings

Single year ratings with improved accuracy, using ratings from prior years as a starting point. ranking Currently the best version to predict outcome of future matchups. short explanation

Older seasons. Every year except for '02 uses the ratings from year before as a prior. With playoffs. 2002 data is less than one third of the entire season, mostly March/April/June.

2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002

10 year ranking The analysis includes coaches (listed with prefix 'Coach_'). Different lambdas were used for offense, defense and coaches. Optimal lambda values were found through crossvalidation, they were: Offense: 2500, Defense: 7500, Offense(Coach): 6000, Defense(Coach): 4500

List of coaches

Non prior informed ranking for 2012 No coaches included. Lambda: 3000. 0 was used as a prior for every player. Not as good for prediction as version above.

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Adjusted Turnovers 2011 2009-2011

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Spanish ACB league ratings for 2010/2011

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Adjusted player pairs Short explanation

Offense 2011 2010 2009 2008 2008-2011

Defense 2008-2011

.. trios

Offense 2008-2011

.. and 5 man units

Offense+Defense 2011 with playoffs 2011 without playoffs 2008-2011

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Adjusted Points per Shot From 07/08 to now. Offensive Lambda: 3000. Defensive Lambda: 4000.

Adjusted Points per Shot From 07/08 to now. Offensive Lambda: 3000. Defensive Lambda: 4000. Without shots that were directly preceded by a turnover

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How to forecast team offensive rebounding %

Adjusted Rebounding 09/10+10/11. With individual rebounding %'s

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Fouling How often players got fouled in 2010 by which subset of players.

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Euroleague ranking Rankings for the euroleague. Entire 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons combined. Lambda: 3000.

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Joe Sill's paper on regularized adjusted +/-
NBA lineup data provided by basketballvalue
NBA fouling data provided by basketballgeek
Euroleague and ACB lineup data provided by in-the-game

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