Every day this week, Song of the Day will showcase a track by an artist playing the South by Southwest music festival. For NPR Music's full coverage of SXSW — complete with full-length concerts, ...

A common lament of fans of any sport is that box scores can only give you so much information. Some of the traditional box score information isn’t even very useful. In basketball, one of the canonical ...

SUNRISE, Fla. --Gustav Forsling’s regular season was positively fantastic. A real plus, one might say. Puns aside, the smooth-skating defenseman wrapped up his regular season in classic fashion, ...

Player Impact Plus-Minus (PIPM for short) is a plus-minus metric that I have been building out for nearly six months. It has finally reached a point where I am happy with the output along with the ...

The 2019-20 NHL season quietly marked the 60th anniversary of that most-hated, yet constantly used statistic in hockey: plus-minus. It’s virtually impossible to find someone willing to publicly defend ...