Performance Index Ranking (PIR) is a basketball

Basketball

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 statistical formula that is used by the Euroleague

Euroleague

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 and Eurocup, as well as some European national domestic leagues. It is also sometimes referred to as either Performance Index Rating, or as Evaluation or Valuation.

History

The Performance Index Ranking stat was at one time used to determine the MVPs of separate stages of the Euroleague

Euroleague

Euroleague Basketball, commonly known as the Euroleague, is the highest level tier and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe, with teams from up to 18 different countries, members of FIBA Europe. For sponsorship reasons, for five seasons starting with 2010–2011, it is...

 season. Like the weekly MVP, the regular season MVP, and the Top 16 MVP. However, this changed when the Euroleague MVP award, became based on a voting process, starting with the 2004-05 season

Euroleague 2004-05

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. Performance Index Ranking is still used to determine the Euroleague MVP of the Week and the Eurocup MVP of the Week awards.

Calculation

The stat's formula is:

(Points + Rebounds + Assists + Steals + Blocks + Fouls Drawn) - (Missed Field Goals + Missed Free Throws + Turnovers + Shots Rejected + Fouls Committed).

See also

• PER
  Player Efficiency Rating
  The Player Efficiency Rating is ESPN Insider writer John Hollinger's all-in-one basketball rating, which attempts to boil down all of a player's contributions into one number. Using a detailed formula, Hollinger developed a system that rates every player's statistical performance.-Introduction:PER...
  
  
• Efficiency
  Efficiency (basketball)
  In basketball, the most commonly used statistical benchmark for comparing the overall value of players is called efficiency. It is a composite basketball statistic that is derived from all the other basic individual statistics: points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, turnovers and shot attempts...
  
  
• Offensive Rating
  Offense efficiency rating
  In basketball statistics, Offensive Efficiency Rating is the average amount of points scored by a basketball player per shot taken. This includes missed field goals as well as free throws. , Dwight Howard leads the NBA in OER with 1.72 points per shot....
  
  
• Defensive Rating
  Defensive rating
  Defensive Rating is a statistic used in basketball to measure an individual player's efficiency at preventing the other team from scoring points. It was created by author and statistician Dean Oliver.-Formula:...
  
  
• Basketball statistics
  Basketball statistics
  Statistics in basketball are kept to evaluate a player or a team's performance.Some statistics are* GP, GS: games played, games started* PTS: points* FGM, FGA, FG%: field goals made, attempted and percentage...
  
  
• Fantasy basketball
  Fantasy basketball
  Fantasy basketball was inspired by fantasy baseball. Originally played by keeping track of stats by hand, it was popularized during the 1990s after the advent of the Internet. Those who play this game are sometimes referred to as General Managers , who draft actual NBA players and compute their...