Athlon Sports' exclusive metric that combines NFL teams' efficiency in the red zone on both offense and defense — is becoming ...

The Minnesota Vikings went 14-3 last season, but an early playoff exit suggested maybe they weren’t as good as their record indicated. This season, with J.J. McCarthy taking over at quarterback, ...

Led by Kymora Johnson’s 17-point 10 assist double-double, Virginia ran away from SMU in the decisive third period for a 76 – ...

Plus-minus is a stat that measures — for a given player — the score differential between the player’s team and his opponents, during the time while he is on the court. It’s a pretty common metric ...

Andy Hill has no trouble remembering, nearly a half-century later, when he first came to believe he might have conceived something worthwhile when he introduced the “Team Contribution Index” to ...

A common lament of fans of any sport is that box scores can only give you so much information. Some of the traditional box score information isn’t even very useful. In basketball, one of the canonical ...

The Golden State Warriors second-year guard tops all players in the NBA in plus/minus, a stat that measures how many points a team is better than their opponents while a player is on the floor.

The plus/minus rating is a useful statistic, but it is often overrated. A number of factors -- many of them out of a player's control -- affect a player's rating, which is why you can't take the ...

The plus/minus rating is a useful statistic, but it is often overrated. A number of factors -- many of them out of a player's control -- affect a player's rating, which is why you can't take the ...

The 2019-20 NHL season quietly marked the 60th anniversary of that most-hated, yet constantly used statistic in hockey: plus-minus. It’s virtually impossible to find someone willing to publicly defend ...