Player Efficiency Rating

The Player efficiency rating (PER) is ESPN Insider writer John Hollinger's all-in-one basketball rating, which attempts to boil down all of a player's contributions into one number. Using a detailed formula, Hollinger developed a system that rates every player's statistical performance.

Read more about Player Efficiency Rating:  Introduction, Problems With PER, Career PER Leaders, Calculation, Distribution

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    “Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.”
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    “I’ll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.”
    —Samuel Goldwyn (1882–1974)