"PO/PPS" ("Productive Offense/Points Per Shot")

Abstract

By excluding shot attempts on which a player is fouled, current methods used to track shooting proficiency in basketball do not display the consequences of a player's poor free throw shooting as directly and simply as POPPS. Under POPPS, field goal shot attempts of all kinds are included in one statistical expression—points per shot—and a field goal attempt on which a player is fouled is included in his/her POPPS shot attempts. Then, any points scored on the ensuing free throws are included as points scored on that field goal attempt. This new method provides the simplest and most comprehensive composite of shooting proficiency.

Description

[0001] This document specifies a utility patent by inventor Christopher B. Wells. The invention is entitled “Productive Offense / Points Per Shot” (“POPPS”) (to be a registered trademark and copyright of the inventor or his designee). POPPS provides a novel method or process to assess a player's productivity in the game of basketball. PRIOR ART [0002] Shooting performance has been expressed as a percentage of shots made out of shots attempted. Offensive statistics have been kept separately for different types of shot attempts—two point field goals, three point field goals and free throws. For example, percentages of free throws made vs. attempted often range around 65%, two-point field goal percentages range around 45% and three point field goal percentages range around 35%. But these can be misleading CB to a player's true shooting proficiency, due to the current methodology of excluding from shot attempts all shots on which a player is fouled. Thus, current statistical methods do no...