Performance Index Rating (PIR) is a
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that is used by the
Euroleague Basketball Company's
first and second tier competitions, the
EuroLeague and the
EuroCup, as well as various European national domestic and regional leagues. It is a part of the
Tendex basketball rating system. It is also variously referred to as Performance Index Ranking, Rating, Ranking, Evaluation, Valuation, and Efficiency. It is similar to, but not exactly the same as, the
NBA's
Efficiency (EFF) stat.
History
Performance Index Rating was created in 1991, by the
Spanish ACB League, which started using it to determine the league's MVP of the Week and
regular season MVP awards. In 2004, the ACB League changed the criteria by which it chooses the regular season MVP award, but it continues to use PIR to determine the MVP of each week of the season.
The PIR stat was at one time used to determine the MVPs of separate stages of the
EuroLeague season. Like the MVP of the Round, the regular season MVP, and the top 16 MVP. However, this changed when the
EuroLeague MVP
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award became based on a voting process, starting with the
2004–05 season. Performance Index Rating is still used to determine the
EuroLeague MVP of the Round and the
second-tier EuroCup MVP of the Round awards.
The validity of major European basketball leagues using PIR as a way to rank players and give MVP awards has been criticized, over the fact that it does not take into account, nor use, any weighting system to determine the importance of each individual stat; unlike the
Player Efficiency Rating (PER) rating stat,
Calculating PER.
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, when he worked at ESPN
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.
Calculation
The stat's formula is:
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See also
* Tendex
* PER
*Efficiency
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*Offensive Rating Offensive proficiency rating or offensive productive efficiency is a statistic used in basketball to measure either a team's offensive performance or an individual player's efficiency at producing points for the offense. It was created by author an ...
*Defensive Rating Defensive rating or defensive efficiency is a statistic used in basketball to measure an individual player's efficiency at preventing the other team from scoring points. It was created by author and statistician Dean Oliver.
Formula
The formula is ...
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*Basketball Statistics Statistics in basketball are kept to evaluate a player's or a team's performance.
Examples
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References
External links
{{EuroCup Basketball
Basketball statistics
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