Best Performances of Yesterday
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DRE
Our single-game production metric. Eleven box-score stats, each weighted by how much it moves a team's scoring margin: Kevin Ferrigan's DRE refit on Jeremias Engelmann's RAPM, 2016-17 to 2025-26. No per-possession cost, so it measures a night's total production.
Net Points
Created by ESPN Analytics: each play's effect on the score, credited to the players involved, offense plus defense. From 2018-19, regular season only. Read ESPN's introduction.
Game Score
John Hollinger's quick box-score total on a points-like scale. Points, made shots, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks add; misses, fouls and turnovers subtract.
Coverage. Every regular-season and playoff game since 1983-84, the first season NBA.com logs carry rebounds and turnovers for nearly every game. NBA.com's plus-minus (+/-) starts in 1996-97; earlier games show a hyphen. An asterisk marks a playoff game. Logos and headshots are current, not of the era.
Checks. Values are calculated from NBA.com box scores and ESPN's files as published. They are not each checked against a second source, and sources sometimes disagree. Ranks tie at one decimal.
Box scores: NBA.com. Net Points: ESPN Analytics. Not affiliated with the NBA, its teams or ESPN; logos and headshots belong to their owners.