📊 Plus-Minus Explorer
On-court plus-minus by player, filtered by team, season, and game period.
How to read these numbers
- Plus-minus = points the team scored minus points it allowed while the player (or the whole group of players you picked) was on the floor. Per minute divides that by the minutes on the floor, so players with different playing time can be compared.
- vs Team/min compares that rate with the team's own overall rate across every minute of its games (including the minutes this player was playing). Positive = the team does better than its usual when he's on the floor; negative = worse than its usual.
- On/Off compares it with the team's rate only in the minutes he sat. It's the sharper question ("how much better is the team with him than without him?"), and can differ from vs Team/min, especially for players who play most of the game — then the team's overall rate is mostly his minutes, so vs Team/min sits near zero while On/Off shows the real gap.
- The heatmap shows the same stat for each stretch of the game (1, 4 or 6 minutes, or a quarter): blue = the team outscored opponents with him on the floor, red = the opposite; use the second dropdown to switch between Plus-Minus, vs Team/min and On/Off. The color scale is set by regulation windows with 10+ games behind them; overtime and thinly-sampled windows are drawn fainter (hover any box for its exact value and sample). Compare lines up to five players or lineups side by side; blue marks whichever side did better in each window.
- Cautions: plus-minus is affected by who else is on the floor, and small samples (few minutes or games) swing wildly. On-court minutes are reconstructed from substitutions and run a few percent under official box-score minutes. Before about 2017 the scores are rebuilt from made shots and free throws.
Players
Pick 1 to 5 players.
| Player(s) | Games | On-Court Min | Plus-Minus | Per Minute | vs Team/min | On/Off |
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Minute by Minute
Average on-court plus-minus during each minute of the game.
Head-to-Head
Blue marks whichever side had the better rate that window, shaded by the margin; dark marks the other side.