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Monday, December 17, 2007

Nuggets Player Ratings From the 2006-07 Season

NUGGETS PLAYER RATINGS FROM THE 2006-07 SEASON (LAST YEAR)
Following the player rating is the team that the player played on in 2006-07
Carmelo Anthony.. 41.5 Nuggets
Allen Iverson...... 39.4 Nuggets and 76'ers
Marcus Camby... 32.4 Nuggets
Nene............... 23.3 Nuggets
Chucky Atkins.... 21.8 Grizzlies
J.R. Smith....... 18.5 Nuggets
Steve Blake...... 15.2 Nuggets
Eduardo Najera... 13.9 Nuggets
Steven Hunter.... 13.3 76'ers
Reggie Evans..... 12.6 Nuggets
Linas Kleiza....... 12.1 Nuggets
Yakhouba Diawara. 7.0 Nuggets
DerMarr Johnson.. 5.3 Nuggets
Bobby Jones...... 4.0 76'ers

NUGGETS WHO HARDLY PLAYED AT ALL IN 2006-07
Kenyon Martin.... Injured-Nuggets
Anthony Carter... Hardly Played-Nuggets
Von Wafter....... Hardly Played-Clippers
Jelani McCoy..... Did Not Play At All-No Team

Source for the ratings: ESPN

[Historical and Non-Current] Real Player Ratings User Guide, December 2007

IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS IS A REPLACED USER GUIDE AND APPLIES ONLY TO REAL PLAYER RATING REPORTS PRIOR TO NOVEMBER 2008

ESPN PLAYER RATING
You can tell how well they played at a glance. Of the advanced statistics I have seen on the internet, this one seems to have the best balance between offense and defense. Many other advanced statistics are biased in favor of good defenders, and do not reflect the heavy importance of offense in basketball. Here is the formula for the ESPN rating of a player:

PLAYER RATING (GROSS) =

Points + Rebounds + 1.4*Assists + Steals + 1.4*Blocks - .7*Turnovers + # of Field Goals Made +1/2*# of 3-pointers Made - .8*# of Missed Field Goals - .8*# of Missed Free Throws + .25 *# of Free Throws Made

REAL PLAYER RATING
Here is the formula for Real Player Rating:

Real Player Rating = ESPN Player Rating / Minutes Played

The ESPN Player Rating and the Minutes Played are both usually used with a per game time frame, so the usage of this statistic will usually be:

Real Player Rating = ESPN Player Rating per Game / Minutes Played per Game

But you can calculate a Real Player Rating for any period of time you have the data for. Nuggets 1 will report out Real Player Ratings for each game, and it will periodically give the Real Player Ratings for all the Nuggets for the whole season to date.

The straight up player rankings are obviously heavily affected by how many playing minutes the various players get. With many teams, you can rely on the coach to give his various players roughly the playing time that makes the most sense for his team. Unfortunately, you can not rely on George Karl to award playing time in just about the best way possible. Therefore, it makes good sense to introduce a new and very important statistic that Nuggets 1 will call the Real Per Minute Player Rating which, as the name implies, is the gross ESPN player rating divided by the number of minutes.

This statistic allows everyone to see whether or not players who play only a small number of minutes are doing better than their low gross rating will indicate. At the same time, it will allow everyone to see whether players with a lot of minutes are playing worse than, as well as, or better than their gross ranking shows. This is another big improvement in the Nuggets 1 never ending quest to give readers total information about the Nuggets. This statistic allows the reader, at a glance, to see exactly how well each player is doing without regard to playing time. So it gives you pure knowledge not available anywhere else.