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Message: [QUOTE="Brewski, post: 4201581, member: 11578"] I have a few questions. This is the Player Performance Rating (PER) created by Hollinger? Because this rating only includes blocks and steals on defense, the overall rating is not a reliable indicator of how good they did overall on defense, correct? Also, a player can have a high PER because they come into the game for the last 10 minutes against the other teams 2nd unit, right? I think it would be nice if we had a similar algorithm for defense. IS there such a thing? If a person is scores 30 points in a game but gives up 35 points either directly or indirectly on defense, I would consider this a bad game. The person that comes to mind for me is Arike Ogunbowale. She was an incredible offensive player, but I always thought her defense was pretty bad. But I am sure she ended up her college career with a really high PER. It would be nice to have some kind of indicator for defense that reveals how many times you get beat off the dribble and a score or an assist occurs, etc. Then you could really get an idea about a players overall performance in a game! [/QUOTE]