Basketball statistics
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Statistics in basketball are kept to evaluate a player or a team's performance.
Some statistics are
- GP, GS: games played, games started
- PTS: points
- FGM, FGA, FG%: field goals made, attempted and percentage
- FTM, FTA, FT%: free throws made, attempted and percentage
- 3FGM, 3FGA, 3FG%: three-point field goals made, attempted and percentage
- REB, OREB, DREB: rebounds, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds
- AST: assists
- STL: steals
- BLK: blocks
- TO: turnovers
- PF: personal fouls
- MIN: minutes
- AST/TO: assist to turnover ratio
Averages per game are denoted by *PG (PPG, RPG, APG, SPG etc). Sometime the players statistics are divided by minutes played and multiplied by 48 minutes (had he played the entire game), denoted by * per 48 min..
A player who makes two double digit statistics on two categories in a game is said to make a double double, and in three categories a triple double. A quadruple double is extremely rare.
In fantasy basketball, statistics are used in a formula as a score of a player's performance.
