basketball statistics Statistics in basketball are kept to evaluate a player's or a team's performance. Examples Examples of basketball statistics include: * GM, GP; GS: games played; games started * PTS: points * FGM, FGA, FG%: field goals made, attempted and percen ...

, Offensive Efficiency Rating (OER) is the average number of points scored by a

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

player per shot taken. This includes missed field goals as well as free throws. The statistic stems from the previously created

Player Efficiency Rating The player efficiency rating (PER) is John Hollinger's all-in-one basketball rating, which attempts to collect or boil down all of a player's contributions into one number. Using a detailed formula, Hollinger developed a system that rates every p ...

(PER). The per-minute rating was created by

John Hollinger John Hollinger (born May 17, 1971) is the former Vice President of Basketball Operations for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and current Senior NBA columnist at The Athletic. Prior to December 2012, he was an a ...

. Hollinger states, "The PER sums up all a player's positive accomplishments, subtracts the negative accomplishments, and returns a per-minute rating of a player's performance."

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