Daily Archives: February 15, 2012
What is PER? Players with the Best Player Efficiency Rating in NBA History
Michael Jordan - GOAT - Also Has the Highest Player Efficiency Rating (PER) (blog.fansaloon.com)
You hear about this Player Efficiency Rating in basketball all the time. Well, what the heck is PER anyway?
ESPN’s John Hollinger came up with it. It’s an attempt to go beyond the basic stats like points per game or offensive rebounds, much like sabermetrics looks past home runs and batting average in baseball.
The goal is to reach as true and honed a determination of a player’s value as possible.
PER is “a rating of a player’s per-minute productivity.” The formula is uber-complicated for us laypeople.
The result is an all-time list that is less spot-on (Michael Jordan at the top) than seemingly way off (Dwyane Wade fifth? Kobe Bryant and Larry Bird 18th and 19th?). Who would you rather have – Dwyane Wade, Kobe Bryant or Larry Bird?
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| 1. | Michael Jordan | 27.91 |
| 2. | LeBron James | 27.14 |
| 3. | Shaquille O’Neal | 26.43 |
| 4. | David Robinson | 26.18 |
| 5. | Wilt Chamberlain | 26.13 |
| 6. | Dwyane Wade | 25.68 |
| 7. | Bob Pettit | 25.35 |
| 8. | Chris Paul | 25.28 |
| 9. | Tim Duncan | 24.78 |
| 10. | Neil Johnston | 24.63 |
| 11. | Charles Barkley | 24.63 |
| 12. | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 24.58 |
| 13. | Magic Johnson | 24.11 |
| 14. | Karl Malone | 23.90 |
| 15. | Dirk Nowitzki | 23.64 |
| 16. | Hakeem Olajuwon | 23.59 |
| 17. | Julius Erving | 23.57 |
| 18. | Kobe Bryant | 23.54 |
| 19. | Larry Bird | 23.50 |
| 20. | Kevin Garnett | 23.37 |
| 21. | Oscar Robertson | 23.17 |
| 22. | Yao Ming | 23.02 |
| 23. | Jerry West | 22.90 |
| 24. | Elgin Baylor | 22.70 |
| 25. | Dwight Howard | 22.39 |
