EFFICIENCY STATS
Efficiency: The Daily Recap

How do many WNBA coaches quickly evaluate a player's game performance? They check her efficiency.

WNBA.com now evaluates all players based on the efficiency formula, the same one also used by fantasy game players in WNBA Virtual GM: ((Points + Rebounds + Assists + Steals + Blocks) - ((Field Goals Att. - Field Goals Made) + (Free Throws Att. - Free Throws Made) + Turnovers)).

For example, compare Nykesha Sales' game (16 points, 10 rebounds and two assists) on May 24 vs. Los Angeles and Tamika Williams' game (six points, eight rebounds and two assists) on May 24 vs. Sacramento. Sales played a better game, right? Not exactly. Williams, who shot 3-3 from the field and committed zero turnovers, registered a +16 efficiency total while Sales, who shot 5-14 from the field and committed three turnovers, logged a +14.

For games played on 10/7/2011

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Lynx  73
Box Score
Dream  67
Player MIN EFF
S. Augustus32+18
M. Moore28+16
R. Brunson35+16
C. Wiggins21+14
T. McWilliams-Franklin33+8
L. Whalen30+5
J. Adair12+2
M. Wright90
PlayerMINEFF
A. Price29+14
E. de Souza35+11
A. McCoughtry29+11
S. Lyttle28+10
L. Harding34+8
A. Bales13+7
C. Miller11+6
I. Castro Marques21+1

 

2011 MOST EFFICIENT PLAYOFF PERFORMANCES
PLAYER
DATE
OPP
MIN
FGM-A
FTM-A
REB
AST
ST
BS
TO
PTS
EFF
MIN vs Dream 38 11-14 13-16 8 3 0 0 2 36 + 39
PHO vs Storm 35 12-14 5-6 7 1 0 3 1 29 + 36
MIN vs Dream 35 10-15 6-7 11 1 0 2 1 26 + 33
IND vs Dream 36 9-15 2-2 9 2 1 4 2 25 + 33
PHO @ Storm 36 6-11 6-6 17 1 2 0 3 19 + 31
MIN @ Mercury 36 7-10 1-1 7 5 1 0 0 21 + 31
ATL @ Lynx 31 10-20 11-12 5 0 3 2 2 33 + 30
ATL @ Lynx 36 10-22 16-21 3 2 3 1 0 38 + 30
IND @ Dream 36 8-15 4-4 5 6 2 0 3 25 + 28
SAN vs Lynx 37 9-18 2-2 6 5 4 0 2 24 + 28
MIN @ Mercury 38 8-14 5-6 6 7 0 1 1 21 + 27
MIN vs Silver Stars 32 10-16 0-0 8 4 2 0 3 22 + 27
PHO vs Lynx 35 8-12 2-2 11 1 0 1 1 18 + 26
ATL @ Fever 33 7-10 11-19 8 1 4 2 4 26 + 26
SEA vs Mercury 25 5-11 7-7 11 4 2 0 3 17 + 25
SEA vs Mercury 32 7-12 5-5 5 3 3 0 2 21 + 25
MIN vs Mercury 31 6-10 1-1 13 1 2 2 2 13 + 25
IND vs Liberty 35 6-13 4-4 8 4 3 0 0 17 + 25
ATL vs Fever 38 13-22 2-4 5 3 1 0 3 30 + 25
NYL vs Fever 32 6-9 4-4 5 3 3 0 3 19 + 24
ATL vs Fever 34 11-23 4-6 4 4 4 0 1 27 + 24
MIN vs Mercury 30 8-14 5-5 2 7 0 0 0 21 + 24