Plus-minus in basketball: useful, noisy and easy to misread
A bench player finishes +14 and a starter finishes -9. Plus-minus is one of the simplest numbers in a box score and one of the easiest to over-interpret.
Europe's top club competition: 20 teams play a double round-robin regular season of 38 rounds (24 September 2026 to 16 April 2027). Places 1-6 go straight to the best-of-five playoffs, places 7-10 enter the Play-In, and the Final Four is played on 28 and 30 May 2027.
Ranking rules. Teams are ranked by wins. Ties are broken by: 1) head-to-head wins among the tied teams; 2) head-to-head point difference among the tied teams; 3) overall point difference in the regular season; 4) total points scored; 5) sum of quotients of points scored and conceded in each game (EuroLeague Basketball regulations). Points scored in overtime are not counted in the standings points for/against (pf/pa here follow that rule).
| # | Team | W | L | Pct | Pts for | Pts against |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Panathinaikos | 5 | 1 | .833 | 528 | 438 |
| 2 | Fenerbahce | 5 | 1 | .833 | 501 | 447 |
| 3 | Olympiacos | 5 | 1 | .833 | 564 | 524 |
| 4 | Valencia Basket | 4 | 2 | .667 | 583 | 537 |
| 5 | Crvena Zvezda | 4 | 2 | .667 | 485 | 457 |
| 6 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 4 | 2 | .667 | 540 | 520 |
| 7 | Virtus Bologna | 4 | 2 | .667 | 525 | 518 |
| 8 | Dubai Basketball | 4 | 2 | .667 | 490 | 493 |
| 9 | Real Madrid | 3 | 3 | .500 | 554 | 531 |
| 10 | Barcelona | 3 | 3 | .500 | 534 | 525 |
| 11 | Besiktas | 3 | 3 | .500 | 554 | 555 |
| 12 | Partizan | 3 | 3 | .500 | 466 | 471 |
| 13 | Anadolu Efes | 2 | 4 | .333 | 492 | 510 |
| 14 | Zalgiris Kaunas | 2 | 4 | .333 | 490 | 517 |
| 15 | Bayern Munich | 2 | 4 | .333 | 521 | 552 |
| 16 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 2 | 4 | .333 | 509 | 540 |
| 17 | ASVEL | 2 | 4 | .333 | 527 | 572 |
| 18 | Paris Basketball | 1 | 5 | .167 | 504 | 545 |
| 19 | Olimpia Milan | 1 | 5 | .167 | 504 | 559 |
| 20 | Baskonia | 1 | 5 | .167 | 504 | 564 |
Compiled by the Live Desk from EuroLeague official results/standings feed (euroleaguebasketball.net), EuroLeague official game center box scores, EuroLeague official player statistics, Eurohoops: EuroLeague releases full schedule for the 2026-27 season. Updated 20 October 2026.
| # | Player | Team | G | PPG | RPG | APG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nadir Hifi | Paris Basketball | 4 | 20.2 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 2 | Sasha Vezenkov | Olympiacos | 6 | 18.0 | 5.8 | 0.7 |
| 3 | Dwayne Bacon | Dubai Basketball | 6 | 17.8 | 3.5 | 2.5 |
| 4 | Carsen Edwards | Zalgiris Kaunas | 6 | 17.2 | 1.2 | 2.7 |
| 5 | Scottie Wilbekin | Besiktas | 6 | 17.0 | 1.5 | 3.3 |
| 6 | Duane Washington | Bayern Munich | 5 | 16.8 | 0.6 | 3.2 |
| 7 | Tyson Etienne | Paris Basketball | 6 | 16.3 | 1.7 | 3.3 |
| 8 | TJ Shorts | Valencia Basket | 6 | 15.8 | 1.5 | 5.7 |
| 9 | Sylvain Francisco | Panathinaikos | 6 | 15.8 | 2.5 | 4.5 |
| 10 | Patty Mills | ASVEL | 5 | 15.6 | 0.6 | 2.8 |
A bench player finishes +14 and a starter finishes -9. Plus-minus is one of the simplest numbers in a box score and one of the easiest to over-interpret.
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