Primarily, I wanted to better understand how impactful players have been to this Portland Trail Blazers team. It is obvious to the casual fan who the best players are – I wanted to verify that. I also wanted to investigate what combination of players (lineup) has been the most beneficial to the team.
On-Court/Off-Court NetRating represents the team’s performance with the player on the court versus on the bench (off-court) per 100 possessions. Being able to measure how a team plays with and without a player allows us to get a “pretty good sense of how well that player is fitting in with the roster”.