NBA Point Guards: Skills Ranking
I've attempted to rank the NBA point guards according to skills. I have taken five statistical categories from 82games.com and manipulated them to get my rankings. The five categories are: Overall eFG, Jumpshot eFG, Inside eFG, Passer rating, and Ballhandler rating. I multiplied the Passer rating by 5 and the Ballhandler rating by 2.5 so that the average rating number is similar to the average eFG numbers, around 50.
This has a tendency to overrate the guys with good Passer and Ballhandler skills, in other words the "pure" point guards (such as Brevin Knight and Luke Ridnour) and underrate the so-called "scoring" point guards (such as Gilbert Arenas, Jason Terry, and Allen Iverson). Thus, there are significant anamolies in my rankings.
I also have sort of a hodge-podge of point guards. I added some reserves from last season; I think I got all of the starters.
Overall I think it provides a pretty interesting picture of the Association's better true PGs. Here are the rankings with the cumulative scores. Tomorrow I will rank PGs according to Eff48 productivity.
1..Steve Nash (Suns).....................338.30
2..Andre Miller (Nuggets)............320.65
3..Baron Davis (Warriors)............305.15
4..Jason Kidd (Nets).....................300.80
5..Chauncey Billups (Pistons)......292.95
6..Jason Williams (Heat)..............284.60
7..Chris Paul (Hornets)................280.20
8..Brevin Knight (Bobcats)..........278.90
9..Jameer Nelson (Magic)............277.15
10.Allen Iverson (76ers)..............267.10
11.Luke Ridnour (Sonics).............267.00
12.Mike Bibby (Kings)..................256.95
13.Sam Cassell (Clippers).............256.15
14.Stephon Marbury (Knicks).....254.10
15.Tony Parker (Spurs)...............251.90
16.Delonte West (Celtics).............250.60
17.Gilbert Arenas (Bullets)..........248.00
18.Mike James (Raptors)............248.00
19.Kirk Hinrich (Bulls).................246.70
20.Mo Williams (Bucks)..............244.30
21.Chris Duhon (Bulls).................241.30
22.Damon Jones (Cavs)...............239.25
23.Marcus Banks (Twolves).......238.40
24.Jason Terry (Mavericks).......236.55
25.Deron Williams (Jazz).............236.20
26.Smush Parker (Lakers)..........233.75
27.Damon Stoudamire (Grizz)....232.55
28.Rafer Alston (Rockets)...........230.95
29.Seb Telfair (Celts)...................229.40
30.Tyronn Lue (Hawks)..............228.35
31.TJ Ford (Raptors)...................228.10
32.Jamaal Tinsley (Pacers).........220.70
33.Devon Harris (Mavs)..............216.40
posted by Ty Will @ Wednesday, July 12, 2006
3 Comments:
hahaha its the wizards was gonna see if u caught that
What a great site, how do you build such a cool site, its excellent.
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Anonymous 1: I don't understand your comment.
Anonymous 2: I said my formula underrated the scorers. Arenas, in terms of just basketball skill, should obviously be higher. He's a terrific scorer. Is he a true point guard, though? I question.
Anonymous 3: I refuse to acknowledge Mr. Abe's idiotic PC decision to dump one of my favorite nicknames in sports -- the Bullets -- in favor of a wussy Harry Potter nickname like "Wizards". Thus, they remain the Bullets for me.
Anonymous 4: Thanks for the compliment. What I did was I monkeyed around with the basic HTML code given by blogpot.com until I came up with a look I liked. It was trial and lots of error, believe me. I don't know squat about HTML.
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