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Revising the NBA MVP Chase
No more role players.
I explained the NBA MVP Chase back in December. Like the NFL MVP Chase, I was determined to find a system that rewarded contributions to victories.
But I’ve been bothered that role players were ranking high in the NBA MVP Chase just because they were regular starters on winning teams
Like in the NFL, the NBA MVP should look at offensive skill, and not go to defensive-minded role players who put in minutes and get a high +/-. To weed out the role players who were getting almost identical win and +/ totals to the actual best players, I’ve decided to add John Hollinger’s Player Efficiency Ratio (PER) into the mix.
The new formula is simple. A player’s MVP Chase score is:
PER + Minutes per game (MPG) plus Games Won (GW; number of victories in which the player participated, NOT total team victories).
More concisely, PER + MPG + GW.
PER summarizes a player’s skill, MPG summarizes the value the player’s own coach places on him, and GW indicates how often the team actually wins when he plays.
Here is the current Top Ten as of 02/11/2022. The number by each player is the sum of their PER+ MPG+ GW.
- Chris Paul, Suns, 100.7
- Steph Curry, Warriors…
