MVP Season 2

[lutonlol]

At regular intervals during the season I'll rank the top players on every team and do a little write up on a few. To start here are the top players from each squad. I base this on a ranking I've developed for SIMs which is similar to the rating Basketball Monster provides for the NBA. It calculates the value based on actual scores normalised over 40mpg (Duncan's actual value is 52.000 over 35mpg which equals 59.429 over 40mpg) - enjoy

Kevin Garnett 61.906
Tim Duncan 59.429
Dirk Nowitzki 56.784
LeBron James 56.302
Dwight Howard 56.080
Dwyane Wade 55.288
Amare Stoudemire 50.315
Shaquille O'Neal 48.755
Paul Pierce 48.542
Jeff McInnis 48.249
Al Harrington 47.205
Mike Bibby 47.000
Pau Gasol 46.809
Kirk Hinrich 46.800
Antawn Jamison 46.667
Yao Ming 46.387
Jameer Nelson 45.958
Tracy McGrady 45.333
Chris Paul 44.894
Ray Allen 44.679
Richard Hamilton 44.371
Elton Brand 44.176
Jason Kidd 44.131
Carmelo Anthony 43.064
Joel Przybilla 42.461
Steve Francis 41.770
Chris Bosh 41.333
Emeka Okafor 40.702
Jason Richardson 39.980

[lutonlol]

At this early stage of the season its hard to argue with the current front runner - KEVIN GARNETT

For reasons best known to itself, the SIM doesn't rank KG in ANY of the league leader categories if it did he would appear as follows:
35.5ppg...#2
14.3rpg....#1
which would probably be enough but add in 7apg 1.3spg and 2.3bpg and then have your team leader shooting 56% and 91% from the stripe and who needs more? KG was last years regular season MVP and on present form will repeat

Which is tough on Tim Duncan whose figures would be exceptional were it not for the current leader. 30.0mpg 14.3rpg 3.3apg 0.8spg 2.3bpg and a measly 1.8topg all in just 35minutes court time.

A way behind the front two come 3 players tightly bunched:-
#3 Nowitzki is the current ppg #1 and its only his rebounding that hampers his overall prospects.
#4 LeBron is revelling playing PG for the Cavs where he dominates opponents and is close to a triple double in most games, look for his numbers to improve when the Cavs finally get to play in Cleveland.
#5 Dwight Howard is the sleeper and its not hard to see him making his way up the rankings as the season progresses.

[HeuBBall23]

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