In an effort to reward both jump shooting volume and efficiency, we'll use "points added" from Basketball Reference's adjusted shooting tables.
To find that number from a given range, you take a player's points per attempt, subtract the league average for points per attempt from the same range and then multiply that answer by the number of attempts from that range.
If you do that for all attempts from eight feet and out (so, some twos and a ton of threes), you get this top five:
But going that route overwhelmingly rewards three-point shooters who do little in the mid-range. And since finding the "best shooter" is mostly a subjective pursuit, we want to give a little more credit to players who are lighting it up from both three and the mid-range.
So, instead of lumping all shots from eight feet and out together, we'll find points added on twos from eight feet and out, as well as points added from three, and then add those numbers together to get the following top and bottom five.
