Plus-minus: Maryland-Bucknell

I love the idea of plus-minus —- a stat so simple yet still instructive at the same time.

Put simply: Look at what the scoring margin is whenever a player is in a game. Whatever the margin of a game is times five is the overall total that should be cobbled together.

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It’s also a little time-consuming to do by hand, but we’ll see just how long I can keep this going.

Doing this when the subs are listed on the end-of-game book is easy. Well, not easy, but less arduous.

So here’s the rundown from Maryland’s season-opening defeat of Bucknell on Friday. It should really come as no surprise that Greivis Vasquez easily has the best margin on the team:

Player	vs. Buck	Season
1-Milbourne	+13	+13
4-Dupree	+8	+8
5-Hayes	+14	+14
11-Kim	+10	+10
14-Mosley	+14	+14
21-Vasquez	+24	+24
22-Bowie	+14	+14
23-Pearman	0	0
24-Tucker	+12	+12
25-Goins	+5	+5
32-Burney	+9	+9
33-Gregory	+11	+11
35-Neal	+11	+11

—- Patrick Stevens