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  1. (used when you are giving a figure that is not exact) approximately
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The NBC News/Marist poll of Florida was conducted June 17-21 of 947 registered voters (plus-minus 3.9 percentage points), 344 registered Democrats (plus-minus 6.5 percentage points) and 326 Republicans (plus-minus 6.7 percentage points).
In Georgia, the poll interviewed 937 registered voters (plus-minus 3.2 percentage points) and 707 likely voters (plus-minus 3.7 percentage points).
And in Texas, the poll interviewed 943 registered voters (plus-minus 3.2 percentage points) and 679 likely voters (plus-minus 3.8 percentage points).
The NBC/Marist poll of Tennessee was conducted August 25-28 of 940 adults (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 4.0 percentage points), 730 registered voters (plus-minus 4.5 percentage points) and 538 likely voters (plus-minus 5.1 percentage points).
The live-caller NBC/Marist poll was conducted October 23-27 of 910 Arizona adults (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 4.1 percentage points), 793 registered voters (plus-minus 4.4 percentage points) and 506 likely voters (plus-minus 5.4 percentage points).
The NBC/WSJ/Marist poll was conducted May 29-31 of 557 likely Democratic primary voters (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 4.2 percentage points), 991 potential Democratic primary voters (plus-minus 3.1 percentage points) and 1,833 registered voters (plus-minus 2.3 percentage points).
The NBC/WSJ/Marist poll was conducted April 18-20 of 2,606 registered voters (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 1.9 percentage points), 734 likely Democratic primary voters (plus-minus 3.6 percentage points) and 571 likely Republican primary voters (plus-minus 4.1 percentage points).
The live-caller NBC/Marist poll of Indiana was conducted from October 24-28 among 931 adults (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.9 percentage points), among 800 registered voters (plus-minus 4.2 percentage points) and 496 likely voters (plus-minus 5.5 percentage points).
The NBC/WSJ/Marist poll was conducted March 1-3 among 2,229 registered voters (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 2.1 percentage points), 546 likely Democratic primary voters (plus-minus 4.2 percentage points) and 482 likely Republican primary voters (plus-minus 4.5 percentage points).
The NBC/WSJ/Marist polls were conducted July 5-10 of 822 registered voters in Iowa (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.4 percentage points), 848 registered voters in Ohio (plus-minus 3.4 percentage points) and 829 registered voters in Pennsylvania (plus-minus 3.4 percentage points).
He's also 220nd in the league in PER, 20th in Win Shares Per 48 Minutes, 11th in Box-score Plus-Minus, and ninth in ESPN's Real Plus-Minus.
Results have a margin of error of plus-minus 4.7 percentage points, and results among black respondents have a margin of error of plus-minus 5.9 percentage points.
In Arizona, the poll interviewed 948 registered voters (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.2 percentage points) and 719 likely voters (plus-minus 3.7 percentage points).
In Nevada, the poll interviewed 985 registered voters (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points) and 707 likely voters (plus-minus 3.7 percentage points).
The NBC/WSJ/Marist poll of Indiana was conducted by live-caller interviews (via landline and cell phone) among 2,149 registered voters (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 2.1 percentage points), 645 likely Republican primary voters (plus-minus 3.9 percentage points) and 449 likely Democratic primary voters (plus-minus 4.6 percentage points).
ESPN's Defensive Real Plus-Minus (DRPM) goes deeper, attempting to ascribe a basic plus-minus number to a player, while also taking into account the teammates and opponents who share the court with him.
That exceeds the NBH's target range of 3% plus/minus 1%.
He ranks 471st out of 472 players in Real Plus-Minus.
The poll's overall margin of error is plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.
For comparison, the Republican with the biggest positive plus-minus is Sen.
The margin of error for the poll was plus/minus 4 percent.
He's also first (!) in Defensive Real Plus-Minus (more on that later).
The NBC News/Marist poll of Arizona was conducted June 17-21 of 839 registered voters (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 4.5 percentage points) and 7783 Republican primary voters (plus-minus 6.7 percentage points).
The survey has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.
He had a minus-16 plus-minus ratio, his third consecutive negative season.
It has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.
Bryant was 1 for 2004 and had a plus/minus of minus-43.
The most stark stat in favor of James, however, may be plus/minus.
Hartman finished with one assist and a plus-minus rating of plus-2.
The Tennessee poll was conducted February 22-25 and reached 665 likely Republican voters, with a margin of error of plus-minus 3.8 percentage points, and 405 likely Democratic voters, with a margin of error of plus-minus 4.9 percentage points.
The Texas poll was conducted February 18-23 of 537 likely Republican voters, with a margin of error of plus-minus 4.2 percentage points and 381 likely Democratic voters, with a margin of error of plus-minus 5.0 percentage points.
The brand's signature oversized plus / minus buttons for volume are also slightly larger now.
Below, catch all three Plus/Minus episodes and our Q&A with Dr. Rosner.
Schroder grabbed nine rebounds and finished with a game-best 153 plus-minus rating.
It has an overall margin of error of plus-minus of 3.27 percentage points.
James has five of the top 10 Box Plus/Minus seasons of all time.
His Box Plus/Minus this season is 10.5, ahead of his last three seasons.
Soucy, tied among NHL rookies in plus-minus rating, hadn't scored in eight games.
He also registered a plus/minus of minus-210 in 212 minutes of play.
The margin of error among the 736 registered voters is plus-minus 3.6-percentage points.
The 229-255 Knicks find themselves in the league's plus/minus basement at minus-9.
The margin of error for the 600 likely voters is plus-minus 4.7 percentage points.
His Defensive Box Plus-Minus is a ghastly -2.8, and it's easily his biggest problem.
After all, according to ESPN's Real Plus-Minus metric, Mr Curry was worth 8.33 more points per 100 possessions than an average player during the recently completed regular season; the Box Plus-Minus statistic at Basketball-Reference credits him with an utterly gigantic 12.4 mark.
Single game plus-minus can be deceiving, but this has been a trend all playoffs long.
The NBC/WSJ poll has an overall margin of error of plus/minus 4.0 percentage points.
His plus-minus numbers painted him as a major liability, and his playing time suffered accordingly.
Among the poll's 905 likely voters, the margin of error is plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.
The RBI's inflation target is at 20143 percent, with a band of plus/minus 2 percent.
Rose finished dead last among 20163 qualifying point guards in real plus-minus in 22016-217.
Nine of the top 10 Democrats on the plus-minus list are up for re-election.
Crowder ranks 371st in Real Plus-Minus after back-to-back seasons in the top 30.
Respondents were randomly sampled and the poll's margin of error is plus-minus 4.2 percentage points.
He ranked fourth on the team in plus/minus (plus-1183) and third in hits (2118).
And so Amazon bought them for, I think it was $800 million, plus, minus, or so.
But Marvin Williams was a whopping minus-23 in the plus-minus in 29 minutes of action.
His marks in advanced metrics like PER, Win Shares, and Box Plus Minus are all career highs.
Kyle Lowry has surpassed Carter's contributions to winning, according to advanced metrics like Box Score Plus-Minus.
But all five of the Hornets' bench players were at least minus-eight in the plus-minus.
Winnipeg did not have a player with a plus/minus rating greater than zero on Saturday. 2.
The Swedish playmaker led the NHL in 2017-18 with a plus-minus rating of plus-49.
The bank targets inflation at 2.5 percent with a plus-minus 1 percentage point band of allowed fluctuations.
Westbrook leads the NBA in scoring, Player Efficiency Rating, Value Over Replacement Player, and Box Score Plus-Minus.
The margin of error for the 720 registered voters in the poll is plus-minus 3.7 percentage points.
The Pacers bench provided 35 points, and five of the six reserves recorded positive in plus-minus scores.
Not a bad deal for someone who ranks 18th on ESPN's NBA Real Plus-Minus from last season.
He played 16:18 with two shots, a minor penalty and a plus/minus rating of negative-1.
Prior to this game, Spezza was scoreless in the first two games with a plus-minus of minus-four.
He finished last season with eight goals and 20183 assists and a -3 plus/minus rating in 80 games.
Take Box Plus/Minus, which accumulates traditional box score stats to judge a player's overall contributions offensively and defensively.
The poll reached 900 registered voters and had an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.
Miami's four reserves all registered negative plus/minus numbers, with Johnson being the worst of the bunch at minus-233.
It also has UE's recognizable plus/minus controls on top, as well as play/pause/skip controls, also on top.
DME Oman crude oil contracts' operational tolerance is plus/minus 0.2%, which caps the premiums for the 0.2% term cargoes.
In 60 playoff games over five seasons, Shattenkirk has five goals and 29 assists but has a plus/minus of -15.
Defenseman Victor Hedman leads the team in assists (223), plus-minus rating (plus-26) and ice time (13:21 per game).
In New Hampshire, the poll interviewed 1,020 registered voters (plus-minus 3.1 percentage points) and 768 likely voters (3.5 percentage points).
The 31-year-old owns a career-best plus-minus of plus-12.2 this season, and the Cavaliers keep outscoring opponents.
And what will have to happen for you to adjust that target rate, up to let's say, plus-minus one percent?
Martin: Let's talk about conditions under which that target would have to be raised to let's say plus minus one percent.
Halak made 20 saves for the Islanders, who lost despite finishing the game with a plus/minus rating of plus-10.
The NBC News/Marist poll of Ohio was conducted June 17-22 of 778 registered voters (plus-minus 4.4 percentage points).
Irving has finished with a positive plus-minus rating in all eight of Cleveland's playoff games, but those numbers remain ominous.
His defensive real plus-minus ranks just outside the top ten among power forwards and is top-20 at the five.
After a slow start, he is shooting nearly 210 percent from the field and is top 250 in real plus-minus.
Curry has led all players in the playoffs in terms of plus/minus but is a minus-19 for the game.
In four seasons with the Kings, Voynov had 18 goals and 63 assists, with a plus-minus rating of plus-23.
The Thunder own the best plus-minus in the NBA in the clutch, having outscored teams by a whopping 61 points.
They also got stellar play from Andre Iguodala, who scored just two points but was plus-254 in the plus-minus.
Real Plus-Minus currently ranks Porter as a top-20 player and the Washington Wizards get slaughtered when he's off the floor.
"Beasley is a talent," said Knicks guard Courtney Lee, who had 212 points and a team-best plus-241 plus/minus ratio.
He ranks 21rd at his own position in Real Plus-Minus, and was invisible in the biggest moments on the grandest stage.
He reviews plays after timeouts, two- and five-man lineup combinations and plus/minus numbers, and evaluates the team's defense and rebounding.
Shank also had to drill holes to add additional buttons for the plus, minus, home, and screenshot buttons required by the Switch.
On Tuesday, down the stretch, he often lost his man on defense and finished at minus-23 in the plus-minus column.
The plus / minus and home / share buttons are a little weird and rubbery, but not to the point where it's a problem.
Those three and Cory Joseph - who had six assists - each had a positive plus-minus rating of at least nine points. 1.
The rubber stripe on the front where the plus / minus volume buttons were is gone for a cleaner look and more uniform sound.
Which is fair; the margin of error for the weight estimates presented in the study are at a whopping plus-minus 25 percent.
The Spurs were 36 points worse with Aldridge on the court, the worst plus/minus in the game by a whopping 14 points.
That's because the confidence interval for monthly changes in nonfarm payrolls is plus/minus 125,161 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
He ranked 451 out of 462 players in Defensive Real Plus-Minus this season—between Kobe Bryant and Andrea Bargnani—and looks it.
Walker ranks third in the N.B.A. in offensive plus/minus, a catchall stat to measure the overall value of a player's offensive game.
While his All-Universe teammate Anthony Davis ranks first among power forwards in Defensive Real Plus-Minus, Randle is 91st out of 93 players.
He's still great in the ways in which he's great, but he finished 39th among shooting guards in Real Plus-Minus for a reason.
It was a game in which James Posey played 22 minutes and 35 seconds, scored two points, finishing with a plus/minus of -32.
According to Basketball Reference, only 13 players since the 193-1 season have finished a game with a plus/minus of -46 or worse.
The plus/minus stat, flawed and imperfect as it may be, also tells you a lot about a hockey player and a hockey team.
Many of his advanced metric statistics, including win shares per 48 minutes, value over replacement player and box plus/minus, were worse this year.
He finished with 17 points but shot just 5-of-14 from the floor and posted a game-low negative-34 plus-minus rating.
Key's plus-minus — the statistic that states the score of the game during the minutes a player played — was +303, by far the highest.
He leads the entire NBA in Real Plus-Minus and was an obvious choice to play in his tenth straight All-Star Game next month.
Luckily, Alyssa Litman's hilarious, honest short films about those agonizing three minutes, Plus/Minus, brings some real candor and warmth to this notoriously fraught situation.
Entering Friday night, he was 11th among small forwards in real plus-minus, an advanced statistic that estimates a player's affect on a team's performance.
Ingles jumped from 190 to 28 in Real Plus-Minus this season, mostly because he went from a decent three-point shooter to an elite marksman.
After placing 22020th, 285th, 9th, and 127th over the previous four seasons, Cousins is currently second behind only James Harden in ESPN's Real Plus-Minus stat.
In April 6900, the band around the central parity was widened to plus/minus 2628 percent, and was further widened to 28503 percent in March 22019.
Covington and Josh Okogie returned to the lineup after missing Minnesota's two-point loss in Phoenix on Saturday, and both contributed with positive plus-minus scores.
The survey, conducted Tuesday through Thursday after the caucuses, measured 709 likely Democratic primary voters and has a margin of error of plus-minus 4.7 percentage points.
He also didn't like the large error bars assigned to the direct dating, which for Apidima 0003 featured a plus-minus of 16,000 years (211±16 ka).
The latest poll of 1,005 adults, was conducted this week from Tuesday to Thursday this week and has a margin of error of plus minus 3.1 percent.
Rangers RW Mats Zuccarello (minus-11) and Coyotes D Oliver Ekman-Larsson (minus-10) sit at the bottom of the NHL's list in plus/minus rating. 3.
In a playoff-low 833 minutes, the world's top athlete recorded 30 points, seven assists, four rebounds, four steals, and the best plus/minus of his career.
WC: Nikola Jokic Only three centers have a higher Real Plus-Minus than Jokic, one of the most valuable 21-year-old buried treasures in the NBA.
Tied for the team lead in plus-minus during the playoffs, Sundqvist has been suspended for a game after the NHL sanctioned his hit on Matt Grzelcyk.
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted of 900 adults, nearly half reached by cellphone, and has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.
He finished second to Westbrook in total clutch points and came up 24 short on 50 fewer field goal attempts; no player had a more favorable plus/minus.
And, by the way, this term specifically came from a podcast I did with Ryan Holiday who interviewed MMA instructor Frank Shamrock about the concept of plus, minus, equal.
He isn't better than Bradley Beal, Khris Middleton, or Victor Oladipo—even though, at 52.93nd in the league, he's higher in Offensive Real Plus-Minus than all of them.
The bank expects inflation to reach its target of 3 percent plus/minus 1 percentage point by mid-2019, for which sustained loose monetary conditions are necessary, it said.
"Our starters have the sixth-best plus/minus (ratio) in the NBA, and then four guys with (reserve center) Roy Hibbert are fine, too," Charlotte coach Steve Clifford said.
But what is important for us not to have the inflation once 4%, but to maintain to sustain this inflation plus minus 4% for medium term, for longer term.
Stephen Curry led the Warriors with 13 points and Klay Thompson added 18, but Curry's plus-minus was minus-39, Thompson's was minus-41 and Draymond Green's minus-43.
An index compiled by BNP Paribas also shows moderate short exposure to the pound - on a scale of plus/minus 50, sterling currently scores minus 18, the bank said.
Mr Irving's defence was as porous as ever—he ranked 12th from the bottom in the entire NBA, according to ESPN's complex, all-in-one Real Plus-Minus statistic.
He placed way down toward the bottom in other advanced measurements like Box score Plus-Minus (228th), Value Over Replacement Player (230th), and Win Share rate (233rd), as well.
He's shooting under 20 percent on corner threes for the second year in a row, which feels half-anomaly, half-red flag, and ranks 400th in Real Plus-Minus.
He ranks second, behind only James Harden, in Offensive Real Plus-Minus, and is by far the most migraine-inducing presence in basketball when conducting a pick-and-roll.
He was rarely troubled, maintains one of the most impressive plus/minus Compubox records (punches landed against punches taken), and perfected the art of hit while not getting hit.
This is a natural time, now that each team has passed the 215-game marker, to check in on one of my favorite statistics: plus/minus ratings for teams.
Last season, Bradley's Real Plus-Minus ranked one spot below Lou Williams—someone opposing offenses intentionally abuse on a regular basis—and this year he's 67th at his own position.
There is no single agreed-upon measure of individual player value in the NBA, but as all-in-one statistics go, Box Plus/Minus (BPM) is one of the best.
Defenseman Shea Weber, who leads the team with 12 hits and seven blocked shots, is the only member of the club with a positive plus/minus rating (plus-1). 1.
Mikkel Boedker is Arizona's leading scorer with 31 points despite notching only one in his last four games but owns the team's worst plus/minus rating at minus-14. 1.
Over the last three years, he ranked 16th in the NBA in raw plus-minus, doing so in fewer minutes than all but two of the names ahead of him.
Paul George Pros: He leads the league in Real Plus-Minus and RPM Wins, and the Thunder are on pace to win 44 more games when he's on the court vs.
The 25-year-old Moscow native completed his rookie NHL season by playing in 41 games, recording four assists without a goal and a -9 plus/minus rating for the Coyotes.
And then there's Nurkic, the inside presence who simultaneously has no place in a modern league that's exterminating cement-footed big men, and also rank 16th in Defensive Real Plus-Minus.
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted October 4-6 of 800 adults — more than half via cell phone — and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.5 percent points.
Two months into his career, he ranks first in Defensive Real Plus-Minus at his position (which is point guard, even though he spends time all over the place) and 15th overall.
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted May 11-13 of 800 adults - including nearly half by cell phone - and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.5 percentage points.
Most advanced metrics have never been his ally: Bradley's PER has never flown above league average and he finished 261st in Real Plus-Minus this year—a drop from 139th last season.
In the statistic "box plus-minus," which sums up all of a player's contributions, Mozgov ranked 51st among centers last season, behind Nene Hilario, Mike Muscala and Lavoy Allen, among many others.
As he did all season, and throughout the playoffs, Curry led his team in plus/minus, with the Warriors outscoring the Cavaliers by 263 points in his 34 minutes of playing time.
Columbus D Seth Jones is one of only three active players on the team who have appeared in more than three games to post a positive plus/minus rating (plus-2). 2.
San Antonio backup SG Manu Ginobili had just two points on 1-of-5 shooting in 21 minutes but had the best plus/minus ratio on the team at plus-24. 3.
Even though Pokémon attack/defense charts sometimes use symbols (such as number or plus/minus signs) on top of the colored blocks, scanning for color is a much faster way to interpret them.
Gallo is seventh in Offensive Real Plus-Minus, making a laughable 56 percent of his wide-open threes, averaging more points than he ever has, with career highs in points, rebounds, and PER.
Gallo is seventh in Offensive Real Plus-Minus, making a laughable 21974 percent of his wide-open threes, averaging more points than he ever has, with career highs in points, rebounds, and PER.
Vancouver has four players in the bottom seven of the NHL in plus/minus rating, with Bo Horvat dead last at minus-35 and Radim Vrbata just ahead of him at minus-30. 1.
In the Democratic race, Sanders is ahead of Clinton by four points among likely primary voters, 50 percent to 46 percent, which is within the margin of error of plus-minus 4.8 percentage points.
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted April 10-14 among 1,000 registered voters (including more than half reached by cell phone), which has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.
ABOUT THE WIZARDS (1-4): Washington ranks last in the league with 14.5 points from its bench and the reserves had a collective plus-minus rating of minus-1043 in the loss to Orlando.
He leads the NBA in offensive and overall Real Plus-Minus, with a True Shooting percentage that's somehow reached where it was two seasons ago (a league-leading 66.9), before Durant entered the frame.
In the postseason, Golden State has outscored its opponents by 227 points when Green has been on the court, giving him the second-best plus/minus on the team, behind Stephen Curry (plus 267).
Howard ranked 14th out of the 71 centers who qualified in Defensive Real Plus-Minus, and only Rudy Gobert, Jordan, and Hassan Whiteside fared better among players who averaged at least 29 minutes per game.
While "#2334" made an obvious reference to a computer glitch, or what Holmquist-Wall called a "scrambled transmission," I saw the horizontal and vertical patches of the glitch as evoking Piet Mondrian's "Plus & Minus" works.
His defense improved — he ranked 42nd of 77 shooting guards in defensive real plus-minus in his first year in Atlanta, after finishing fourth-worst in the statistic in his final year with the Knicks.
Though in a nod to Green's influence on the defensive end, he was the best among the Warriors in plus/minus, with Golden State outscoring Houston by 17 points when he was on the court.
The poll also has these numbers on the 2005 audio of Trump: The poll was taken October 8 through the 9 by 500 registered voters with a margin of error of plus-minus 4.4 percentage points.
This year, we started off with a price level of about 30 plus, minus dollars per barrel, provided that throughout the year, it is not going much lower than this, which I believe it would not.
Johnny Gaudreau leads the team in goals (17), assists (22), plus-minus (plus-212), shots (28) and shooting percentage (217) after scoring five goals in the two games prior to Tuesday's 23-26 loss to Anaheim.
Green was insanely terrible in Cleveland's Game 2 loss to the Celtics, notching a measly six points, two boards, and an assist in 28 minutes, and really EARNING a game-worst -17 box plus/minus rating.
C Bo Horvat's point total is decent for a sophomore, 31 in 70 games, but he's been shut out in five of his last six and his plus-minus is a woeful minus-34 this season.
Howard's plus-minus is the third-best mark in the league among players who have played 100 minutes or more this season, trailing Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kawhi Leonard, perhaps the two best players in the NBA.
"Stopping Islamisation is my Westerplatte," he said in an interview with Plus Minus weekly and on Twitter last year, referring to the peninsula where Poland tried to fend off the Nazi invasion that triggered World War Two.
He's been rated negatively by Basketball-Reference's Defensive BPM, FiveThirtyEight's Defensive Plus-Minus, and ESPN's Defensive RPM during each of his three NBA seasons, and ranked 92nd out of 35.23 shooting guards in ESPN's stat last season.
Vonleh is averaging 10 points, 10.3 rebounds, and 2.7 assists at Madison Square Garden, and has the 32nd-highest Real Plus-Minus in the league, with Mitchell Robinson as the only other Knick in the top 63.
In a win against the Toronto Raptors earlier this week, he touched the ball in the front court just 23 times, yet scored 20 points and led all players in plus-minus rating by a wide margin.
He had the same True Shooting percentage as Curry this season (an impressive 62.4), and ranked 24th out of 15 players in Real Plus-Minus after having been third overall during his first year in Golden State.
He ranks fifth among all point guards in Defensive Real Plus-Minus, and the Pelicans allow 99.1 points per 100 possessions when he's on the floor, a rate that would make them the best defense in the league.
Zetterberg added a pair of assists Saturday, giving him team highs of 43 points and 30 assists while Anthony Mantha (22 goals, 22 points) recorded an assist and improved his club-best plus-minus rating to plus-24.
He ranks 113th in defensive real plus-minus (Milos Teodosic, maybe the worst defender in the NBA, ranks 168th), opposing shooters are more accurate when he's guarding them, and his defensive point differential is worst on the Jazz.
Towns is a fine rim protector, though not yet elite, and the guards seem to be contributing to the problem: by Defensive Box Plus-Minus, the trio of Wiggins, LaVine, and Jones are all far below average defenders.
Using a simple statistical formula derived from conventional box-score statistics such as shots, points, rebounds and assists, it provides a good approximation of complex, cutting-edge metrics like ESPN's Real Plus-Minus, which only became available in 23.0.
The Georgia poll was conducted February 18-23 and reached 543 likely Republican voters, with a margin of error of plus-minus 4.2 percentage points, and 3813 likely Democratic voters, with a margin of error of 4.6 percentage points.
The 31-year-old leads San Jose in goals (18), assists (27), points (45) and plus/minus rating (plus-453) in 44 contests as he bolsters his case to unseat reigning Norris Trophy winner Drew Doughty of Los Angeles.
But his defense was hardly impressive — he ranks 82nd out of 89 point guards in defensive real plus-minus this season — and that became an issue on a team that found it so hard to keep opponents from scoring.
Right now he has the same usage rate as Kawhi Leonard and DeMar DeRozan, a top-ten assist percentage, has made more threes than Bradley Beal and Kyrie Irving, and ranks 22nd in offensive Real Plus-Minus (13th among point guards).
The reason why is as simple as his plus/minus: When Holiday is on the floor the Pelicans have outscored opponents by a team-high 18 points; when he's off it, they've been outscored by a team-low 99.13 points.
He's arguably the smartest point guard who ever lived, and is coming off the most efficient season of a first-ball Hall of Fame career in which he finished first (as in, better than everybody else) in Real Plus-Minus.
If you're an analytics-minded NBA fan trying to make a case, there are a number of all-in-one statistics you can choose to bolster your argument: Win Shares per 48, Player Efficiency Rating (PER), Real Plus-Minus (RPM).
ABOUT THE BLACKHAWKS (25-12-5): Artemi Panarin (25 goals, 212 points) and Artem Anisimov (club-most 22 goals, 210 points) continue their strong two-way play as they pace Chicago in plus-minus rating at plus-221 and 224, respectively.
Colorado players own three of the four worst plus-minus ratings in the NHL with Matt Duchene (minus-123) leading the way, while Los Angeles' Jarome Iginla (second at minus-29) played his first 61 games this season with the Avalanche.
"Kobe had a whopping 21 seasons in which he played 500-plus minutes, had a usage percentage of at least 25 and posted an above-average box plus/minus," Bleacher Report's Andy Bailey said of Bryant, who retired in 2016.
The natural drop in Butler's per-game averages this season, playing for such a loaded team, tends to overshadow the fact that he still ranks 16th in the league in a category (Real Plus-Minus) strongly associated with team success.
Not only does he rank fifth among CompuBox pound-for-pound plus-minus leaders, landing 14.1% more of the punches he throws than his opponents do; but opponents have connected on only 7.1 punches per round over his last eight fights.
We have a terrific wealth franchise, which tends to focus at the ultra high net worth level mostly in the United States focusing on ultra wealthy thirty million dollars of investable assets plus minus and above and a very good position there.
ET, NBCSN ABOUT THE WILD (13-10-214): Defenseman Matt Dumba once again has been contributing offensively with four points in his last four games after setting career highs in goals (280), assists (22016), points (217) and plus-minus (plus-23) last season.
The 25-year-old Schenn, however, has been held off the scoresheet in each of the last three games and saw his plus/minus rating drop to minus-23, matching second-year defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere for the team worst in that regard.
Love grabbed 14 rebounds Sunday night, had a Game 7 plus-minus of 19 — the highest mark by far of any Cavalier — and held defensively steady as Curry frantically and foolishly launched a last-gasp 3-point attempt that did not come close.
In Iowa, the presumptive Democratic nominee is ahead of Trump by three points among registered voters, 42 percent to 39 percent, which is within the poll's margin of error of plus-minus 3.4 percentage points while a combined 8483 percent say neither, other or undecided.
He reads the game exceptionally well, and depending on the metric you prefer, he graded out pretty well overall (he had the most Win Shares per-48 minutes of any rookie who played at least 500 minutes, though Real Plus-Minus was down on him).
ABOUT THE STARS (245-22015-216): Dallas' top four in points - Tyler Seguin (23 goals, 163 points, minus-216), Benn (23-22, minus-10), Patrick Eaves (18-31, minus-10) and Jason Spezza (8-31, minus-33) - are also its bottom four in plus-minus.
While defenders duck under screens and try to be as loose as possible guarding him in the pick-and-roll, the Thunder have been outscored by 45 points when Westbrook is on the court, a plus/minus that ranks 199th out of 46.6 players.
They already have a two-way stud who ranks third in Real Plus-Minus and is under contract through 2019, at which point, assuming Butler qualifies for the Designated Player Exception, they can re-sign him to another lucrative maximum contract if they want.
Coupled with his own offensive prowess, Lomachenko's defense and footwork have given him a +20.9 plus-minus rating, easily the best among active boxers (Mikey Garcia is second at +16.2), and the best since Floyd Mayweather Jr. boasted a +24.5 rating, according to CompuBox.
Two days after missing his first game of the year, a 13-point loss at Orlando on Wednesday, Porzingis had a plus-minus rating of positive-31 on Saturday night in a 103-91 win over the visiting Sacramento Kings at Madison Square Garden.
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Anze Kopitar's 36 assists lead the team and his 48 points are second to Carter's 62, but his minus-9 would stand as his worst plus-minus rating in eight seasons since he was worse in each of his first three campaigns (combined minus-44). 1.
According to Box Plus/Minus, a well-regarded measure of a player's impact in each half of the game, his defensive contributions in the playoffs, when every game really counts, have been roughly league-average, whereas the same metric for his regular-season games is abysmal.
ET, CSN Bay Area (Golden State), Altitude (Denver) ABOUT THE WARRIORS (36-2): Curry recorded a negative plus-minus for the first time all season in Monday's win, but Golden State was still able to pull out a win thanks to a solid effort from the reserves.
Andre Iguodala — the most valuable player in last season's finals — had a brilliant night on both ends of the floor, harassing LeBron James, among others, on defense and finishing with 12 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and a game-best plus-minus rating of plus 21.
He finished with more Win Shares than LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, and Kawhi Leonard last year, and was third in "Real Plus-Minus Wins," a stat that estimates how many wins a player contributes to his team's season total, behind only LeBron James and Steph Curry.
Crawford finished the season ranked 39th among regular bench players in Win Shares, 2136th in Player Efficiency Rating, 225rd in Win Shares Per 210 Minutes, 236th in Box Score Plus-Minus, and 236.2nd in Value Over Replacement Player, where he actually graded out in the negative.
At Bazerdzan, I browsed chic designs marrying modern cuts with traditional crafts: thick zinc bracelets inlaid with Bosnian song lyrics by the local label Werkstatt; cotton wrap blouses with graphic prints from Plus Minus; and suede espadrilles from the New York- and Sarajevo-based label Intuitva.
The team is wet trash when he sits and 17.7 points per 100 possessions better when he plays; his partnership with Marc Gasol is still roughing up everyone else for the 276th season in a row, and Conley is fifth in Real Plus-Minus among all point guards.
If though, because of the fundamentals of the U.S. economy or because of Trump policy, the Fed is forced to become much more aggressive or raise sooner and faster, that would have to force the BOJ's hand to raise that target to plus minus one percent, wouldn't it?
He ranks 11th in Real Plus-Minus—just ahead of Curry and Walker—and has scored more points than Karl-Anthony Towns, with a higher PER than Embiid and LeBron, a better True Shooting percentage than Harden and Davis, and more Win Shares per 48 minutes than Lillard.
A few years later, he created his own website, Basketball Value, while working as a management consultant in Princeton, N.J. That website's examination of adjusted plus-minus data caught the attention of N.B.A. front offices and led to paid consulting jobs with the 76ers and the Memphis Grizzlies.
The team is wet trash when he sits and 22.0 points per 100 possessions better when he plays; his partnership with Marc Gasol is still roughing up everyone else for the 276th season in a row, and Conley is fifth in Real Plus-Minus among all point guards.
ABOUT THE CELTICS (2102-23): Avery Bradley committed a unwise foul in the final second to allow Milwaukee to hit the decisive free throw, but he was a catalyst for much of the night with 18 points and a plus-minus ratio (+22) that tied a season high.
Look it up: according to Box Plus-Minus, the best all-in-one summary statistic of a player's contributions that is available for most of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) history, Mr James already stands alone at the top for career value, in both the regular season and the playoffs.
Even Vegas, often a solid arbiter of the objectivity of narrative, took the bait, and has now surely taken a hit here for having listed James as a two-to-one series underdog against a team he's now won 10 consecutive postseason games against with a personal plus-minus of +178.
According to Real Plus-Minus (RPM), a statistic that measures a player's impact by comparing his team's scoring margin when he is on and off the court, both Mr Irving and Mr Thomas add 4-6 points per 56.23 possessions to their own teams' ledgers and 2-4 to those of their opponents.
Heading into this week, Brooklyn's point differential was 14.1 points per 100 possessions better with Dinwiddie on the floor (they performed like a 52-win team with him at point guard, per Cleaning the Glass) and he ranks 15th in Real Plus-Minus, ahead of Kevin Durant, Joel Embiid, Kyrie Irving, and Anthony Davis.
According to Regularised Adjusted Plus-Minus (RAPM)—a measure developed by Jeremias Engelmann of ESPN, which compares a team's scoring margin when a player is on the court versus when he sits on the bench, and adjusts for the quality of everyone else playing at the same time—Mr Westbrook's 2016-17 was in fact rather humdrum.
Even when we consider advanced defensive counting stats, like defensive rebounding and steal percentage, there's no getting around the fact that a box score will never adequately tell us a player's actual defensive impact—which means all-in-one defensive metrics that solely rely on counting stats, like Basketball-Reference's Defensive Box Plus-Minus, are of little use.
He's led the league in scoring once (2016), True Shooting percentage twice (2016, 2018—both accompanied by a top-ten usage rate), steals twice (2015, 2016), three pointers attempted and made five times (2013-2017), Offensive Real Plus-Minus twice (2016, 1003—since the stat was invented he's never finished below third), and so on and so forth.
Both clubs feature offensive-minded defensemen, as Arizona's Oliver Ekman-Larsson extended his point streak to five games with an assist in Thursday's 5-3 victory over Los Angeles while San Jose's Brent Burns continues to pad his resume in his pursuit for his first Norris Trophy by leading the team in goals (25), assists (13), points (61) and plus/minus (plus-20).
In one four-season span, Sports Info Solutions rated him as the best third baseman in baseball at turning balls hit down the third base line into outs, and in an entirely separate three-season span, he was the best third baseman at turning balls hit in the shortstop-third base hole into outs, according to that company's plus-minus system.
And even if Miami doesn't make the postseason, it's a testament to Spoelstra's command and skill that the team's current leaders in plus/minus are on one-year contracts—in other words, they're guys who should ostensibly be looking to pad their individual stats in search of a hefty deal this summer, as opposed to making the right pass and exerting maximum energy on defense.
Again, I think Harden will/should win his first MVP this year—here's how his numbers compare with LeBron's through the whole season—but for the purpose of constructing an argument for anyone else, holes need be poked into the favorite's case, so here goes nothing: Harden's sidekick is Chris Paul, a first-ballot Hall of Fame point guard who leads the entire league in Real Plus-Minus and is just about always on the floor whenever Harden is not.
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