[Effortpost] Advanced stats on which players are contributing the most to the Heat's playoff run.

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To answer these questions I decided to look at 538’s RAPTOR ratings. RAPTOR uses player tracking data to estimate how much each player contributes on the offensive and defensive ends. The total RAPTOR score should be something like the “number of points a player contributes to his team’s offense and defense per 100 possessions, relative to a league-average player.” Higher is better, best during the regular season has been Nikola Jokic at +14. You can read more about it here or play with an interactive tool on their website here. I don’t really care about the details of why it’s a good statistic, but it seems pretty helpful and most importantly for my purposes you can download the data here for free.

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