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03-16-2008, 03:22 PM
Introduction
Enough of the 2007 / 2008 NBA season has elapsed for me to evaluate the best of the best by position and to put up a candidate for league MVP. The approach, like all things statsprocket-ish, is empirical (at least up to the end), statistical, and semi-complicated. Briefly, what I’ve done to rank players is described below. As always, thanks must go to www.dougstats.com (http://www.dougstats.com/) for providing NBA stats in formats easy to drop into Excel.
The ranking methodology…
Select all players who have appeared in more than 50 games
Rank by total Sprocket Points generated and select the top 50
Create three Sprocket Points based ranking for each player…
Rank by count of Sprocket Points for a measure of total statistical production
Rank by percent of team Sprocket Points for a measure of how important the player is to his team
Rank by relative production, the ratio of % of Team Sprocket Points to % of Team Minutes to distinguish players who produce more just because they play a lot of minutes
Weight and average the three rankings for a final measure
Weights are 0.4 for the first ranking, 0.2 for the second, and 0.4 for the third (The tables in each section below show all of the measures used and the final ranking and include all player’s in the league’s top fifty.)
Follow the Link to Continue Reading...
The Best Players So Far » Human Victory Cigar (http://www.humanvictorycigar.com/2008/03/16/the-best-players-so-far/)
Enough of the 2007 / 2008 NBA season has elapsed for me to evaluate the best of the best by position and to put up a candidate for league MVP. The approach, like all things statsprocket-ish, is empirical (at least up to the end), statistical, and semi-complicated. Briefly, what I’ve done to rank players is described below. As always, thanks must go to www.dougstats.com (http://www.dougstats.com/) for providing NBA stats in formats easy to drop into Excel.
The ranking methodology…
Select all players who have appeared in more than 50 games
Rank by total Sprocket Points generated and select the top 50
Create three Sprocket Points based ranking for each player…
Rank by count of Sprocket Points for a measure of total statistical production
Rank by percent of team Sprocket Points for a measure of how important the player is to his team
Rank by relative production, the ratio of % of Team Sprocket Points to % of Team Minutes to distinguish players who produce more just because they play a lot of minutes
Weight and average the three rankings for a final measure
Weights are 0.4 for the first ranking, 0.2 for the second, and 0.4 for the third (The tables in each section below show all of the measures used and the final ranking and include all player’s in the league’s top fifty.)
Follow the Link to Continue Reading...
The Best Players So Far » Human Victory Cigar (http://www.humanvictorycigar.com/2008/03/16/the-best-players-so-far/)