Basketball great, legend, and icon, Kobe Bryant tragically passed away last month in a helicopter crash. The death of Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna shook not only the basketball and sports world but the world at large regardless of any individual’s connection to the sport. Despite having touched everyone who has watched a Basketball game this millennium, we send out special condolences to all who knew Kobe and Gigi personally. Although Kobe Bryant and Gigi were robbed of their future, the lives they touched, the memories they bestowed on everyone, will live on for an eternity.

With all of that being said, this is a sports analytics website, and there probably exists a no more fitting way to honor his legacy from our end, by recapping his remarkable 20-year-career through the numbers produced by our original advanced metrics.

The following article showcases Bryant’s regular season-by season as well as playoff career numbers through the lens of our metrics. Although previous articles have described the metrics in detail, I will summarize them in short.

PCR Formula: Pro Con Rating, a metric that evaluates how well players are playing statistically on a per game basis. Assigning positive weights to pros (Good Box score stats) and negative weights to cons (Bad box score stats).

=((Pts)+(Reb)+(Ast x 1.4)+(Blks x 1.2)+(Steals x 1.1))-((TOs)+(Field Goals Missed)+(Free Throws Missed x .5)+(Fouls))/Games Played

Total PCR: Total Pro Con Rating, just the total PCR; not on a per-game basis.

=PCR * Games Played

PCR/36: Pro Con Rating Per 36 Minutes, a way to evaluate how efficient players are given the pro-con rating metric.

=((Total PCR)/(Minutes Played))*36

EWC Formula:  Estimated Wins Contributed based on box score statistics.

=Player’s Total PCR/Team PCR)*Wins

EWC/82 Formula: Estimated Wins Contributed Per 82 Games, how many wins the player would have if they played 82 games based on their rate and statistics.

=(EWC/Games Played)*82

EWC/48 Formula: Estimated Wins Contributed Per 48 Minutes, an efficiency metric evaluating how many wins per 48 minutes a specific player is estimated to contribute.

=(EWC/Minutes Played)*48

In addition, I have included two metrics that I have not used on the site before, but are based in the above metrics.

PCR/100: PCR per 100 possesions. The same PCR formula but applied to https://www.basketball-reference.com/ Per 100 possessions statistics. PCR/100 is probably the best version of PCR to compare seasons and players from across eras if the players garnered similar amounts of playing times.

Possesions are Calculated as follows (Pulled from B-Ref’s site)=

 0.5 * ((Tm FGA + 0.4 * Tm FTA – 1.07 * (Tm ORB / (Tm ORB + Opp DRB)) * (Tm FGA – Tm FG) + Tm TOV) + (Opp FGA + 0.4 * Opp FTA – 1.07 * (Opp ORB / (Opp ORB + Tm DRB)) * (Opp FGA – Opp FG) + Opp TOV))

EWC/100:  Estimated Wins Contributed per 100 possesions.  Similar logic applies here as this is the number of wins a player contributes per 100 of their team’s possessions. The shorthand way to calculate EWC/100 is below. Points can be substituted for any box statistic that is measured in PCR/100. Take note that the Total Points * 100 divided by Pts Per 100 yields the number of possessions for a player.

=(EWC/((Total Points * 100)/Pts Per 100))*100

Kobe Bryant Career Advanced Stats Profile: 

Regular Season: (PPG/RPG/APG/SPG/BPG/FG%/3P%/FT%)
*Career Highs (Given the individual season qualifies)

1996-1997: 7.6/1.9/1.3/0.7/0.3/41.7%/37.5%/81.9%
Total PCR: 404.9
PCR: 5.0
PCR/36: 13.22
PCR/100: 19.17
EWC: 2.59
EWC/82: 2.62
EWC/48: 0.113
EWC/100: 0.123

1997-1998: 15.4/3.1/2.5/0.9/0.5/42.8%/34.1%/79.4%
Total PCR: 964.0
PCR: 12.2
PCR/36: 16.88
PCR100: 24.03
EWC: 6.16
EWC/82: 6.39
EWC/48: 0.144
EWC/100: 0.153

1998-1999: 19.9/5.3/3.8/1.4/1.0*/46.5%/26.7%/83.9%
Total PCR: 914.7
PCR: 18.29
PCR/36: 17.37
PCR/100: 25.31
EWC: 5.63
EWC/82: 9.23
EWC/48: 0.143
EWC/100: 0.155

1999-2000: 22.5/6.3/4.9/1.6/0.9/46.8%/31.9%/82.1%
Total PCR: 1477.2
PCR: 22.38
PCR/36: 21.06
PCR/100: 30.27
EWC: 10.90
EWC/82: 13.54
EWC/48: 0.207
EWC/100: 0.222

2000-2001: 28.5/5.9/5.0/1.7/0.6/46.4%/30.5%/85.3%
Total PCR: 1695.2
PCR: 24.93
PCR/36: 21.93
PCR/100: 31.83
EWC: 10.83
EWC/82: 13.06
EWC/48: 0.187
EWC/100: 0.203

2001-2002:25.2/5.5/5.5/1.5/0.4/46.9%*/25.0%/82.9%
Total PCR: 1895.5
PCR: 23.69
PCR/36: 22.28
PCR/100: 32.27
EWC: 12.28
EWC/82: 12.59
EWC/48: 0.192
EWC/100: 0.209

2002-2003: 30.0/6.9*/5.9/2.2*/0.8/45.1%/38.3%*/84.3%
Total PCR: 2359.9*
PCR: 28.78*
PCR/36: 24.98*
PCR/100: 35.95*
EWC: 13.58
EWC/82: 13.58
EWC/48: 0.192
EWC/100: .207

2003-2004: 24.0/5.5/5.1/1.7/0.4/43.8%/32.7%/85.2%
Total PCR: 1486.3
PCR: 22.87
PCR/36: 21.87
PCR/100: 31.76
EWC: 9.62
EWC/82: 12.14
EWC/48: 0.189
EWC/100: 0.205

2004-2005: 27.6/5.9/6.0*/1.3/0.8/43.3%/33.9%/81.6%
Total PCR: 1670.4
PCR: 25.31
PCR/36: 22.36
PCR/100: 32.84
EWC: 7.10
EWC/82: 8.82
EWC/48: 0.127
EWC/100: 0.139

2005-2006: 35.4*/5.3/4.5/1.8/0.4/45.0%/34.7%/85.0%
Total PCR: 2219.2
PCR: 27.74
PCR/36: 24.38
PCR/100: 35.73
EWC: 12.15
EWC/82: 12.45
EWC/48: 0.178
EWC/100: 0.196

2006-2007:31.6/5.7/5.4/1.4/0.5/46.3%/34.4%/86.8%*
Total PCR: 2158.0
PCR: 28.03
PCR/36: 24.74
PCR/100: 35.13
EWC: 10.53
EWC/82: 11.21
EWC/48: 0.161
EWC/100: 0.172

2007-2008: 28.3/6.3/5.4/1.8/0.5/45.9%/36.1%/84.0%
Total PCR: 2213.0
PCR: 26.99
PCR/36: 24.96
PCR/100: 34.67
EWC: 12.75
EWC/82: 12.75
EWC/48: 0.192
EWC/100: 0.200

2008-2009: 26.8/5.2/4.9/1.5/0.5/46.7%/35.1%/85.6%
Total PCR: 2013.5
PCR: 24.55
PCR/36: 24.49
PCR/100: 34.69
EWC: 13.60*
EWC/82: 13.60*
EWC/48: 0.221*
EWC/100: 0.234*

2009-2010: 27.0/5.4/5.0/1.5/0.3/45.6%/32.9%/81.1%
Total PCR: 1696.3
PCR: 23.24
PCR/36: 21.54
PCR/100: 31.02
EWC: 10.87
EWC/82: 12.21
EWC/48: 0.184
EWC/100: 0.198

2010-2011: 25.3/5.1/4.7/1.2/0.1/45.1%/32.3%/82.8%
Total PCR: 1799.5
PCR: 21.95
PCR/36: 23.31
PCR/100: 34.34
EWC: 11.22
EWC/82: 11.22
EWC/48: 0.194
EWC/100: 0.214

2011-2012: 27.9/5.4/4.6/1.2/0.3/43.0%/30.3%/84.5%
Total PCR: 1290.1
PCR: 22.24
PCR/36: 20.81
PCR/100: 30.66
EWC: 7.33
EWC/82: 10.36
EWC/48: 0.158
EWC/100: 0.174

2012-2013: 27.3/5.6/6.0/1.4/0.3/46.3%/32.4%/83.9%
Total PCR: 2001.7
PCR: 25.66
PCR/36: 23.92
PCR/100: 33.87
EWC: 9.90
EWC/82: 10.41
EW/48: 0.158
EWC/100: 0.167

2013-2014: 13.8/4.3/6.3/1.2/0.2/42.5%/18.8%/85.7%
Total PCR: 84.6
PCR: 14.1
PCR/36: 17.21
PCR/100: 23.06
EWC: 0.26
EWC/82: 3.55
EWC/48: 0.071
EWC/100: 0.071

2014-2015: 22.3/5.7/5.6/1.3/0.2/37.3%/29.3%/81.3%
Total PCR: 654.4
PCR: 18.7
PCR/36: 19.52
PCR/100: 27.63
EWC: 1.70
EWC/82: 3.98
EWC/48: 0.068
EWC/100: 0.072

2015-2016: 17.6/3.7/2.8/0.9/0.2/35.8%/28.5%/82.6%
Total PCR: 765.9
PCR: 11.6
PCR/36: 14.80
PCR/100: 20.80
EWC: 1.73
EWC/82: 2.15
EWC/48: 0.045
EWC/100: 0.047

Career: 25.0/5.2/4.7/1.4/0.5/44.7%/32.9%/83.7%
Total PCR: 29,764.3
PCR: 21.95
PCR/36: 22.03
PCR/100: 31.63
EWC: 170.73
EWC/82: 10.32
EWC/48: 0.168
EWC/100: 0.182

Playoffs: (Spreadsheet Format) (Includes spreadsheet format for regular season)

Key Takeawys:

-(Will be added within the week)