Please Note: These stats are only recorded for non-guards who defend at least 30% of their contested shots at the rim (less than 6 feet). Rim protection from guards/wings is still an important concept, it just comes in other/much-harder-to-quantify forms: good rotational defense from good stunts to deter drives, tagging rollers, sinking in to cover unguarded lob threats, and good on-ball defense like containing drives one-on-one or being smart in how you navigate on ball and off ball screens. Second, these stats do not encompass all of rim protection as a whole even for bigs. These stats do no quantify the ability to deter shots at the rim which is an extremely important concept of rim protection as a whole. These stats do no quantify how well you defend shots at the rim without fouling which is a really important concept of rim protection as a whole. That said, these stats do effectively capture how well they contest shots at the rim, just don't let it be the finish line in the discourse.
Stats are provided in:
| PLAYER | Name of the Player |
|---|---|
| TEAM | Acronym of Team of the Player TEAM is whatever team the player finished the season with (according to https://www.nba.com/stats/players/bio/ at least). |
| AGE | Age of the Player at the Start of that Season |
| HEIGHT | Height of the Player in feet and inches |
| WEIGHT | Weight of the Player in pounds |
| SEASON | Regular Season |
| GP | the Number of Games Played in that Season |
| MP | the Number of Minutes Played in that Season |
| FREQ% | of all Field Goal Attempts contested, how many of them were within 6 feet of the rim |
| DFGM | Of All Field Goal Attempts contested within 6 feet of the rim, how field goal attempts were made |
| DFGA | How Many Field Goal Attempts Contested With in 6 feet of the Rim |
| DFG% | the FG% of shots contested within 6 feet of the rim |
| DFG% SCORE | the DFG% percentile among players who played at least 500 minutes |
| Diff% | the difference in actual FG% of shots conested at the rim and predicted FG% of shots contested within 6 feet of the rim |
| Diff% SCORE | the Diff% percentile among players who played at least 500 minutes |