IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS APPLIES ONLY TO REAL PLAYER RATING REPORTS PRIOR TO NOVEMBER 2008
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.
