#Raptor check in system plus#
Like Box Plus/Minus (BPM) and Real Plus Minus (RPM), RAPTOR is a plus-minus statistic that measures the number of points a player contributes to his team’s offense and defense per 100 possessions, relative to a league-average player.But it appreciates modern centers such as Nikola Jokić and Joel Embiid, as well as defensive stalwarts like Rudy Gobert.īefore we get into more detail about RAPTOR, a few “getting to know you” basics about it: It can have a love-hate relationship with centers, who are sometimes overvalued in other statistical systems. It highly values two-way wings such as Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. RAPTOR thinks ball-dominant players such as James Harden and Steph Curry are phenomenally good. RAPTOR likewise values these things - not because we made any deliberate attempt to design the system that way but because the importance of those skills emerges naturally from the data. NBA teams highly value floor spacing, defense and shot creation, and they place relatively little value on traditional big-man skills. Second, and relatedly, we wanted a statistic that better reflects how modern NBA teams actually evaluate players.First, we wanted to create a publicly available statistic that takes advantage of modern NBA data, specifically player tracking and play-by-play data that isn’t available in traditional box scores.
In addition to being a statistic that we bake in house, RAPTOR fulfills two long-standing goals of ours: RAPTOR, which stands for Robust Algorithm (using) Player Tracking (and) On/Off Ratings, is FiveThirtyEight’s new NBA statistic.
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