NBA MVP Chase Standings Dec 7, 2024

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The philosophy of the MVP Chase is that a league’s MVP isn’t some combination of great individual stats factored with team success, but that the MVP makes significant contributions to the greatest number of victories.

In basketball, the “value” of a player to a team’s victory can be seen in measurables:

• Minutes Played (MP): this indicates how important a coach think the player is to secure the victory
• Plus-Minus (+/-): This indicates how effective the team plays when the player is on the court. As there are only five players on the court, as opposed to nine or eleven on the field, +/- can suggest how valuable a player was by how efficient the team was while he was on the court.

In the NBA MVP Chase, I looked at players who were shown to be proficient offensively (a Player Efficiency Rating of 20 or more) and counted the number of games in which:

• The team won
• The player had a +/- of 10 or more
• When the player had a +/- of less than 10, the sum of Minutes Played and +/- was forty or more (for example: 36 MP and a +/- of 6 is 42).

As of the games completed December 5, 2024, here are the Top Ten: