What is the record for +/- in a game?

[Rastapopoulos]

Is there a site that keeps track of that? It's hard to imagine many people beating Wallace and Miller's +42 in the Cleveland game.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Actually 4 of the Lakers starting 5 did against Cleveland about 2 months ago.

But in response to your actual question, I have no idea.

 

[mgb]

I'm surprise we had one player with a minus +/-.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Actually 4 of the Lakers starting 5 did against Cleveland about 2 months ago.

Wow - it's going to be hard to beat Manny Harris's -57 in that game. Will that be his claim to fame in the NBA?

 

[TripTango]

I'm no expert in these "advanced stats", but shouldn't the final scoring margin be subtracted as some kind of normalizer? Otherwise you're just showing that that player was on the court a lot in a game where their team got blown out.

EDIT: Or better yet, subtract final score margin x minutes played/48. If this statistic doesn't exist yet, I would like to name it "Playing Time Weighted Normalization of +/-". Or "PLATWENO+".

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Couldn't you say that a player with a lot of defensive rebounds in a game "was just near the basket when the opposing team missed a lot of shots"? You could, of course. But so what? A stat is just a stat.

 

[TripTango]

A stat is just a stat.

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