"PO/PPS" ("Productive Offense/Points Per Shot")

Abstract

By excluding shot attempts on which a player is fouled, current methods used to track shooting proficiency in basketball do not display the consequences of a player's poor free throw shooting as directly and simply as POPPS. Under POPPS, field goal shot attempts of all kinds are included in one statistical expression—points per shot—and a field goal attempt on which a player is fouled is included in his/her POPPS shot attempts. Then, any points scored on the ensuing free throws are included as points scored on that field goal attempt. This new method provides the simplest and most comprehensive composite of shooting proficiency.

1 . Combining all types of shot attempts into one statistical expression, rather than three (or two).  
   
   
       2 . Including in shot attempts those shots on which the shooter was fouled, then crediting that shot attempt with the number of free throws made.