Jeff Hawkins is an award-winning sportswriter with more than four decades in the industry (print and digital media). A freelance writer/stay-at-home dad since 2008, Hawkins started his career with ...

Plus/minus has become a widely referenced stat in modern basketball because it captures team performance with a player on the floor, rather than isolating individual box score achievements. While it ...

Player Impact Plus-Minus (PIPM for short) is a plus-minus metric that I have been building out for nearly six months. It has finally reached a point where I am happy with the output along with the ...

With the Portland Trail Blazers on a downward slide at the conclusion of the 2023-24 season, plenty of questions are coming up regarding talent and suitability of players on their roster. Among the ...

Let’s take regularized adjusted plus-minus (RAPM), a commonly used NBA and NHL lineup-based player impact metric, and adapt for the WNBA. Quick. Try to name the most impactful players from the 2025 ...