True shooting percentage is a shooting efficiency statistic that accounts for two-pointers, three-pointers, and free throws in a single number.
True shooting percentage exists because field goal percentage lies. A player who makes half of mostly three point attempts is far more efficient than one who makes half of only two pointers, and neither number counts free throws at all. True shooting folds all three scoring routes into one efficiency figure, dividing points by a shooting possession measure that weights free throws at the standard rate.
The statistic became the analytics era's standard answer to who actually shoots well. Its leaderboards look different from the raw ones: high volume three point shooters and foul drawing drivers rise, midrange specialists fall, and the sixty percent mark reads as elite rather than merely good, since the scale runs higher than field goal percentage's.
Like every composite in this category, true shooting measures one thing honestly and everything else not at all: it is silent on defence, passing, and shot difficulty. Quiz questions use it as an era signature, the vocabulary of the efficiency age, and pair it with its older simpler cousin in the definition list, because knowing why the old number was replaced is the actual knowledge being tested.
In use"Her true shooting percentage stayed elite because her threes and free throws did the heavy lifting."