They're glaringly useless. Seriously, if you want to live in a virtual world and continue to spend your time looking up stuff to make yourself sound knowledgeable, go right ahead.
You can make up your own definitions too. Enjoy yourself. At some point it actually has to mean something in context of the actual game and system in which its used. Otherwise its little more than statistical wanking. Hell, Dean Smith all but invented the use of what some call "metrics" in basketball and he would most likely roll his eyes if not LHFAO at some of the stuff you trot out.
Right now I'm rolling my own eyes at these incessant tiresome arguments. I'm done with it, but since you like numbers so much, I'll just leave you with this: A metric Dean quite literally invented (that has become a go-to because of its usefulness) is Points Per Possession (PPP), a number most teams hope they can get over 1.0. I saw a stat from this season that when JB is in the game vs when he's not makes a .44 net difference in our PPP vs our opponents' (in other words it covers offense and defense). Given the small ranges dealt with (from 0 to just over 1), a .44 team turn-around from one player is astounding.
Get this straight: No one is arguing that JB's individual efficiency numbers are up to his standards thus far this season. They are clearly not. However, as I tried (probably in vain) to explain to another arguer, that can be traced directly to his hand injury and the compensation both during and after, plus as Roy (who knows a little bit about these things) said, he then started pressing to recapture his mojo, not to mention all the while trying to wrangle struggling freshman Bigs into being a component of our inside-out game in a mostly free-lance offense.
And finally (and of course overlooked) is the fact that, like a great baseball player who is in a temporary slump at the plate but continues to play great in the field, Joel puts on a nightly clinic on defending from the Point (that none of these other PGs can touch) whilst running the system in a manner that puts his team first over trying to ring up individual stats --- all the while putting in the work to get his offensive efficiency back clicking to his standards.
I judge great players by the entirety of their impact on the team and the system in which they're operating. You can judge them any way you want. And I'll start my ideal college team with Joel F***ing Berry. You start yours with whomever else is out there, and as the old southern coach saying goes, "his'n will beat your'n" way more often than not.
Over and out.
