Ah, I know what you’re thinking: Ugh, another statistic to digest. Hold up. Now, before I isolate a metric - total points added (TPA) - that will 110% prove what I am writing about *sarcasm noted*, here’s my brief overview on the subject of advanced analytics.
The concept of advanced analytics isn’t fairly new unless you consider the late 90’s the distant past. During that time, analysts such Dean Oliver and John Hollinger sought to combine all of a player’s contributions into one number. Ken Pomeroy’s tempo-free statistics date back to 2002, and his work is often compared to Bill James (baseball).