Longtime readers of FiveThirtyEight are probably familiar with our pollster ratings: letter grades that we assign to pollsters based on their historical accuracy and transparency. Since 2008, we ...

Among the usual assortment came this one, regarding one of the means sometimes used to assess players: the plus/minus stat. It had applicability when it was asked, but has become a hot-button ...

Plus-minus has been around the NHL since the early 1960s. And its critics have been shouting it down ever since. Plus-minus is the most polarizing statistic in hockey. There’s no quicker way to ...

And for the second straight game, defenseman Mikhail Sergachev was minus-2. Plus-minus is an imperfect statistic, but it’s one many players use to gauge their all-around game on a given night ...

TCI was Hill’s name for the plus-minus rating: How many points were scored for and against your team while you were active in the game? The NHL has been doing this since the 1950s, but Southern ...

The Golden State Warriors second-year guard tops all players in the NBA in plus/minus, a stat that measures how many points a team is better than their opponents while a player is on the floor.

For instance, if his team outscored its opponent by nine points while he was on the court, the player was given a plus-nine. If his team lost six points off its lead, it earned him a minus-six.

Motion: The Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences recommends that the departments of the college shall have the option to report grades for graduate studies including designations of "plus" and ...