

Veronica Burton has moved into a tie with A'ja for best RAPM (Regularized Adjusted Plus Minus).
This metric is one of the best ways we have of measuring a player's overall impact on helping their team win. Plus/Minus in interesting because in theory it accounts for everything that matters in winning, not just putting big numbers in box scores. For example: If someone doesn't rack up high numbers of steals/blocks because their defensive coverage keeps the ball out of the hands of their opponents' best players. However, it tends to skew things in ways where good players on bad teams get punished and bad players on good teams get rewarded. This version adjusts for teammates and opponents and its main weakness is small sample size, so this lumps in previous years where it can. VB has actually improved since last year (although I think that is mainly due to maintaining the big leap she made mid-season last year).
Source: https://dubmetrics.com/players