What constitutes a good point guard? Is he in the traditional, “pass-first” mold or the new type who also looks to score? And can Passer Rating illuminate anything on the conversation?
What is Passer Rating you ask? In the simplest terms, it should be understood as an estimate of the number of points a player provides for his team through passing.
Passing has always been a difficult thing to measure. The primary method is assists, which are recorded when a player passes the ball to a teammate who then shoots and scores. That is woefully insufficient, but it’s all that’s been available.
Assists are a lot like paper money. There’s a certain kind of commonality to them, but they can be very different. American bills all have identical size, are made from the same paper and have a uniform texture. But hand a blind man a stack of varying denominations, and he won’t know one from the other.
That’s the same sort of issue we've been dealing with in using the traditional box-score number. All assists have been treated the same, and conclusions about ...
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Article written by Kelly Scaletta