5 NBA Stats to Know From the Last Week
Net Rating
Net rating (NetRtg), "Measures a team's point differential per 100 possessions. On player level this statistic is the team's point differential per 100 possessions while he is on court."
That makes a whole lot more sense than (PTS + FGM + FTM - FGA - FTA + DREB + (.5 * OREB) + AST + STL + (.5 * BLK) - PF - TO) / (GmPTS + GmFGM + GmFTM - GmFGA - GmFTA + GmDREB + (.5 * GmOREB) + GmAST + GmSTL + (.5 * GmBLK) - GmPF - GmTO), so check it.
| Rank | Player | Team | NetRtg |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaun Livingston | GS | 20.6 |
| 2 | Stephen Curry | GS | 18.6 |
| 3 | Kevin Durant | GS | 16.7 |
| 4 | Eric Gordon | HOU | 16.0 |
| 5 | OG Anunoby | TOR | 15.3 |
| 6 | Draymond Green | GS | 14.4 |
| 7 | Anthony Tolliver | DET | 13.3 |
| 8 | Al Horford | BOS | 12.6 |
| 9 | Marcus Smart | BOS | 12.3 |
| 10 | Klay Thompson | GS | 11.9 |
There're a whole lotta Dubs up there, eh?
It would stand to reason that the league's best team, Golden State, would have five players on the list, and the league's second-best team, Boston, would have two. (It wouldn't stand to reason that Shaun Livingston is the best of the five Dubs, but the numbers are what the numbers are.)
As for the utterly random appearance of Anthony Tolliver, all we can say there is that he ranks in the top 100 in our in-house efficiency metric, nERD. So there's that.
