Plus-minus can be a polarizing statistic. While it certainly doesn’t tell the whole story and can be deceiving at times, it can serve as a good barometer for a player’s impact on the game. NBC Sports ...

With the season now 10 games deep (and sample sizes, while still small, starting to accumulate), and with a long break between games, it’s the perfect time to roll out a series of year-to-date summary ...

Many sabermetricians prefer strikeouts minus walks to the more commonly available K/BB ratio. I agree. But I still use the latter mainly because none of the stats sites produce sortable ...

As we continue to track the Red Zone Plus/Minus — Athlon Sports’ exclusive metric that combines NFL teams’ efficiency in the red zone on both offense and defense — there is a growing correlation ...

CHICAGO — After the Lightning’s 5-0 loss Tuesday to the Blues, the stat sheet told an ominous tale of Tampa Bay’s all-around struggles. Forwards Steven Stamkos and Nick Paul were both minus-5.

Coach Jason Kidd sent reporters scurrying to their research materials recently with a nugget of information that bordered on the unbelievable. He casually mentioned that Josh Green has the best ...

Jaland Lowe and Jayden Quaintance played limited minutes against St. John’s, but their plus minus tells the story of how they ...

Plus/minus statistics have been in the NBA for a while now. Just long enough, apparently, to start pissing some people off. Of the many people who work with plus/minus and its derivatives (various ...

If you’re the rare sort of person who can still form a semi-coherent thought during the second half of a Champions League knockout match, maybe you’ve noticed an odd pattern in Real Madrid’s run to ...

The plus/minus rating is a useful statistic, but it is often overrated. A number of factors -- many of them out of a player's control -- affect a player's rating, which is why you can't take the ...

Kudos to you, Kyle Korver. Korver was a miserable minus-11 in that category, third-worst behind C.J. Watson (minus-15) and Brian Scalabrine (minus-14). Granted, the plus-minus numbers are going to be ...