Metrics 101: NBA Rookie of the Year Watch

Last year’s NBA rookies combined to earn 54.2 win shares, paced by Malcolm Brogdon’s 4.1 for the Milwaukee Bucks and Willy Hernangomez’s 3.4 with the New York Knicks. Even though we’re not yet to the end of the 2017-18 season, this campaign’s superior crop has totaled 75.6. authentic nfl jerseys cheap

That’s a world of difference, and the individual excellence is even more impressive. Ben Simmons (7.5), Jayson Tatum (6.4), John Collins (4.9) and Donovan Mitchell (4.3) have already topped the mark earned by the reigning Rookie of the Year, and Bam Adebayo (4.0), Kyle Kuzma (3.7) and Jarrett Allen (3.6) still have a chance to get cheap nfl jerseys there.

But that’s only one metric. Win shares alone won’t tell us how nfl jerseys for cheap the standout members of this remarkable class stack up.

To objectively determine how this year’s premier first-year players measure against one another, we’re turning to a modified version of the formula for Player Score used in previous articles.

For every player in the NBA who’s logged even a single minute, we pulled scores in five different overarching metrics: NBA Math’s total points added (TPA), ESPN.com’s real plus/minus wins (RPM Wins), player efficiency rating (PER), win shares (WS) and minutes per game. The first two look at volume/efficiency combinations, while the third focuses on per-possession effectiveness and favors offensive production. The fourth element rewards those whose individual merits lead to more victories.cheap nfl jersey

The last—a new addition for this particular countdown—is intended to reward the rookies who have earned larger roles during their inaugural campaigns. Volume and time on the court matter more than they might in other evaluations.

To standardize between five metrics that operate on drastically different scales, we found the z-scores in each category and summed them to find a player’s total nfl jersey cheap  score for each of the 55 rookies with at least 200 minutes recorded. Those cumulative z-scores are all that matter for these selections, which focus entirely and exclusively on work in 2017-18.

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