dberri.wordpress.com - 4/7/2008
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A couple of weeks ago Andre’ Snellings - of Yahoo! Sports and RotoWire.com- asked me to evaluate the top candidate for the MVP award. Snellings was primarily interested in where Wins Produced ranked Kevin Garnett. His column (Hoops Lab: MVP Talk IV - The Heart) covered far more than the Wins Produced numbers (and is hence [...]
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Bucks Diary weighs in on the MVP race
Bucks Diary —
... The latest outstanding post on the WoW Journal concerns this season's MVP race, evaluated from a "Win Score/ Wins Produced" perspective. As those of you who read this blog know, I am a big proponent of the value of this method. So much so, in fact, that I made an unsanctioned addition of my own to the method by considering each player's opponents Win Score, which I refer to as that player's "Defensive" Win Score. For those of you who are interested, I explain below how I came up with the idea for this addition, how I figured out the value of defense to wins ...
Give David West some Credit
Hornets247.com Blog —
... (By the way, one of my favorite stat-sites, Dave Berri's Wages of Wins Journal, weighed in some more on the MVP race and picked Paul to win it. Also, the Blogger MVP Rankings Round 10 is up and ...
There Are No MVP Playoffs
FanHouse —
... a point guard ... and his team's in first place in the toughest conference in memory. (Note: LeBron's current season ranks #14 in the modern era -- he deserves to be in dog fight with Paul, if anyone does.) Kobe, meanwhile, is #6 in PER this season, behind Kevin Garnett (who will end the season with a half-dozen or so more wins) and Dirk Nowitzki (who might not finish in the MVP Top 10). (And if PER's not your bag, Paul wins Roland Rating and Wins Produced, too.) If anyone uses last night's Lakers win to decide their MVP vote, ...
The EXTENSIVE MVP Rundown
SportSayers.com —
... year. There is not one definitive candidate (cough.. cough.. Kobe). Anyways I gathered tons of different opinions from different sport blogs all over, so give them a read and hate on all the people that don’t agree with you.
They are put in random order, to prevent people from bias blocking.
The Association
Fanhouse
Truth About It
Fast Break Blog
Dberri
Hardwood Paroxysm
Hoops Addict ...
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