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Global Rating is the main metric HoopsHype uses to track the performance of basketball players all around the world. Created by our own Alberto De Roa, it combines players’ and teams’ statistics to rank players according to their productivity on the …
Global Rating is the main metric HoopsHype uses to track the performance of basketball players all around the world. Created by our own Alberto De Roa, it combines players’ and teams’ statistics to rank players according to their productivity on the court. The amount of games a player has missed in a certain season or competition is also factored in. A more extensive explanation can be found here.
Below, you can check the Global Rating ranking for each group of age.
(RNK: Overall NBA ranking).
All-Star voting is a complex matter these days with fans, players and media having a voice to decide one of the greatest honors in basketball. To make the decision easier, we simplified who actually deserves to make it according to Global Rating, an …
All-Star voting is a complex matter these days with fans, players and media having a voice to decide one of the greatest honors in basketball. To make the decision easier, we simplified who actually deserves to make it according to Global Rating, an advanced metric that evaluates the performance of every player during the season.
The All-Star rosters will be updated daily considering the NBA rules regarding positions. The starting lineups will feature two guards and three frontcourt players (including center), while the reserves will have two guards, three frontcourt players and two extra players regardless of their position on the court.
HoopsHype examines how some of the NBA’s biggest starts are performing after taking part in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Although the Olympics are viewed as the top international tournament for basketball players and a huge honor to participate in, playing there is still a sacrifice that could have negative consequences, particularly for NBA players coming off of strenuous 82-game seasons plus long playoff runs.
Some of those players’ 2023-24 seasons ended in May or early June, giving them a short turnaround before the Olympic basketball tournament started in late July, ending in August. There were also pre-tournament exhibition games in which those players had to partake. Those same players then had to return to their NBA teams in late September for the start of training camp.
That’s a whole lot of basketball without much rest.
Let’s see how some of the game’s biggest stars are performing after such a tough year of nonstop basketball.
Sitting at 12-11 and sixth in the Eastern Conference, the Hawks’ overall record may not scream dominance, but their current five-game win streak tells a different story. Quin Snyder is coaching a roster that GM Landry Fields strategically …
Sitting at 12-11 and sixth in the Eastern Conference, the Hawks’ overall record may not scream dominance, but their current five-game win streak tells a different story. Quin Snyder is coaching a roster that GM Landry Fields strategically overhauled. His coaching style emphasizes ball movement, offensive efficiency, and defensive hustle, all of which have unlocked career-best performances from players like Dyson Daniels, Jalen Johnson, and De’Andre Hunter. Atlanta is becoming more than just a playoff hopeful – they’re starting to look like a team that could make some noise in the postseason.
Here’s how the All-NBA Teams would look as of today according to Global Rating, our advanced metric that evaluates player performance during the season. According to the recently changed rules, positions are no longer factored in when selecting …
Here’s how the All-NBA Teams would look as of today according to Global Rating, our advanced metric that evaluates player performance during the season.
According to the recently changed rules, positions are no longer factored in when selecting All-NBA teams. However, to make the lineups more realistic, we’re sorting them with guards first, forwards in the middle, and centers last.
Just for fun, we’ll explore how a 5th, 8th, or 10th All-NBA Team might look too.
The Warriors are trying a new approach this season with their rotation, featuring 13 players averaging between 14 and 30 minutes per game so far. The strategy seemed to work well early on, with 12 wins in the first 15 games, but not so lately, as …
The Warriors are trying a new approach this season with their rotation, featuring 13 players averaging between 14 and 30 minutes per game so far.
The strategy seemed to work well early on, with 12 wins in the first 15 games, but not so lately, as evidenced by four straight losses and Stephen Curry suggesting they may need to make some changes.
Steve Kerr is hardly the first coach to employ a deep rotation in the NBA. Here we have listed all the teams in league history with no players averaging 32 minutes per game and how that approach worked for them.
Up to 540 players can hold NBA contracts during a season. Here’s how they’re performing so far in 2024-25, according to our Global Rating advanced metric.
Up to 540 players can hold NBA contracts during a season. Here’s how they’re performing so far in 2024-25, according to our Global Rating advanced metric.
HoopsHype ranks the 12 players who have made the biggest efficiency leaps from 2023-24 to 2024-25, including Chris Paul and Josh Hart.
The first quarter of every NBA season is a blast because there’s so much to learn. We’re creeping up on the 20-game mark for most teams, which means we’re starting to feel a little more grounded in our new evaluations of players, teams, and coaches – although plenty can still change.
Sample sizes at the player level are still small, but they’re not infinitesimal anymore. We can feel better about directional reads on where they’ve improved (or where they haven’t).
In today’s numbers-driven NBA, efficiency is king. We wanted to look at who has optimized their shot diet and leveled up their shotmaking compared to previous years to become a more effective scoring option. I looked at everyone in Basketball-Reference’s qualifying list of players from this year and last year and narrowed it down to players who have attempted at least 7.5 shots per game this season, leaving me with a pool of 119 players. Below are the 12 (the top decile) with the biggest jump in true shooting percentage (TS%).
We’re not at the point where these things are capital-T truths yet; a whole lot of the season still has to go on, and not everyone on this list will remain here if we re-run the exercise at the end of the year. But these players have made such significant jumps that it has to mean something, even if they come back to Earth eventually.
The season is in full swing, and so is Global Rating, HoopsHype’s primary metric for evaluating basketball players’ performance worldwide. This rating system combines individual and team stats to rank players based on their court impact, while also …
The season is in full swing, and so is Global Rating, HoopsHype’s primary metric for evaluating basketball players’ performance worldwide. This rating system combines individual and team stats to rank players based on their court impact, while also factoring in missed games. For a detailed breakdown, click here.
Below, you’ll find rankings showcasing top performers this season, in the last 365 days, and more.
A longstanding NBA tradition (especially this time of the year) is to throw stars under the bus for not leading their teams to the title. If Michael Jordan (before the 90s) and LeBron James had to endure that, you know nobody is safe. This approach …
A longstanding NBA tradition (especially this time of the year) is to throw stars under the bus for not leading their teams to the title. If Michael Jordan (before the 90s) and LeBron James had to endure that, you know nobody is safe. This approach puts a lot of emphasis on the star’s perceived shortcomings and not enough on the context in which the failure occurred. It could be due to injuries, but very often, it’s simply not having enough star power around them to go all the way.
The truth is, few things predict success better than the quality of your teammates, which is kind of duh considering no player is going to play more than 20 percent of the minutes on any given team. But we wanted to put that to the test with a fun exercise where we awarded points to each player in NBA history based on the star power of their teammates. We gave 10 points for playing with the MVP, nine points for the second-place finisher, and so on down to one point for playing with a 10th-place finisher. This is admittedly an arbitrary way to measure the star company of a player, but pretty telling all the same.
Below, you’ll see a ranking of the 75 players who played with the most star power, a list that includes both big-name players and rank-and-file ones. On average, they won 3.03 championship rings. For context, the players selected to the NBA75 list, the finest the league has ever seen, won 2.12 rings on average. It’s almost like playing with stars gets you closer to a title than playing like a star.
At the top of the list is Derek Fisher, who played with five players who finished in the Top 10 of the MVP voting with him on the team. Also worth noting: Seven of the nine winningest players in NBA history (rings-wise) crack the Top 9 of this ranking.
