Best Ever Basketball Players Stats

This dataset contains data and statistics for some of the greatest players who have played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). You can use these stats to assess for various aspects for these players - and maybe even find out who is the all-time GOAT of basketball.

Explaining some statistics to people unfamiliar to Basketball (Assuming points, assists etc. are obvious)

PER - Player Efficiency Rating - The player efficiency rating (PER) is John Hollinger's all-in-one basketball rating, which attempts to collect or boil down all of a player's contributions into one number. Using a detailed formula, Hollinger developed a system that rates every player's statistical performance.

EWA - Estimated Wins Added - EWA is similar to PER where it boils down all player contributions into 1 statistic. But it is used in a way to show how many wins are added to a team when that certain player plays on the court

WS & WS/48 - Win shares & Win shares per 48 - Win Share is a measure that is assigned to players based on their offense, defense, and playing time. WS/48 is win shares per 48 minutes and invented by Justin Kubatko who explains: “A win share is worth one-third of a team win. If a team wins 60 games, there are 180 'Win Shares' to distribute among the players.”