An estimate of the share of his team's plays a player uses — ends with a shot attempt, a trip to the free-throw line or a turnover — while he is on the floor. Around 20% is average for a rotation player; a team's five players on the floor always sum to about 100%.
Usage Rate (USG%)
Also written: USG%, Usage
Standard statistic · NBA
Formula
USG% = 100 × ((FGA + 0.44 × FTA + TOV) × (Team MP ÷ 5)) ÷ (MP × (Team FGA + 0.44 × Team FTA + Team TOV))
On StatVault
Computed in-house for every NBA player-season in the box-score corpus (2002–present), with team totals summed from player box lines, and shown in the advanced table of every NBA profile. There is no usage leaderboard yet.
Shown on: NBA player profiles — advanced table, column USG%