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Stumbled across this online. What do you think?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reddit.com/r/nbadiscussion/comments/dabgtw/historical_boxscore_plusminus_19521973/&ved=2ahUKEwiPvbuGqeT7AhUDrokEHelQBtsQjjh6BAgMEAE&usg=AOvVaw0Tcbes7QBjuULcYaatU3hA

I like it. It looks similar to Player Impact, that went from 1952-2014 (no longer around seemingly). I don't know if I am recalling correctly, but I think Bill looks a bit better than Wilt generally in Player Impact, however with BPM, it seems as if Wilt gets favored more often. Overall, I think this looks pretty darn good. Thanks, for starting a dialogue on this.

Will just say, that this stat was based off BPM 1.0.

Tom Boerwinkle was not that good of a defensive player

wojoaderge wrote:Tom Boerwinkle was not that good of a defensive player

He was an amazing rebounder though, which is pretty much all this stat measure.

Really enjoyed looking at this, will probably come back to it several times. Agree that Boerwinkle was not very mobile nor a strong man defender generally but he was long, blocked shots, and held position well. He was also a surprisingly good passer and hit enough midrange shots to keep his man honest in Motta's high post offense. His defensive rating may be helped by playing with 4 very good man defenders that would use him as a backstop on defense; curious whether Cliff Ray's Drtgs in Chicago were equally good per minutes, haven't checked yet.

The main issue I'd have with the pre 74 stuff would be lack of steals and blocks data and Wilt's vorp being that low from 1960-64 seems a bit off given how many minutes he was playing. Which obviously may be impacted by blocks/steals not being fully represented.

Thanks for sharing, I definitely see the correlation with box stats in the case of Chamberlain and Oscar. Regardless of BPM interpretation, cool work and initiative

Nice done. Is it difficult to conculate careers BPM and VORP with this data?