Cost Per Point, 2020-21 (11 games in)

Taking into account some of the feedback here, here's a look at how the players stack up using Win-Share as a cost metric. Win-share has an offensive and defensive component, so perhaps it's a bit better metric -



Carmelo looks like he's the best bargain looking at it from a WS perspective. Trent again closely following.

Little claims the 'most overpriced' crown using the WS metric. Hood a bit behind him with that other negative WS number. (And if you're trying to think thru which is worse with those negative WS numbers, a 0 WS number would tend towards infinity cost/WS, and as the WS goes lower negative, the cost per WS goes down negative. Therefore a smaller negative cost/WS is worse than a larger negative cost/WS. Yes, that hurt my brain too.)

What jumped out to me using the Cost/WS metric was how poor Covington rates.

 

You might be up late working on that one.

 

Separating starters from bench players, and CJ seems to be the best value. I'd guess he'd be near the bottom last season.

 

Just play at least 1 minute, and don't turn the ball over in that minute, and we're golden

 

Win-share vs Salary would be an interesting game-by-game (or month-to-month, for significantly less data entry) trend. Can you put that into a spreadsheet and plot it season-long for each player? I don't think that would be too many lines to decipher, unless trades are made that push the yearly roster up around 20 players.

 

I think of division by zero in story problem terms: Divide six bananas into zero equal pieces. Obviously, that makes no sense...unless you have a Star Trek-type teleportation system, in which case you can just beam those banana molecules into space and effectively achieve zero pieces.

I guess there are good reasons why I’m not a mathematician.

 

Well, take heart. You may not be a mathematician, but you're a total dork, which is close enough.

 

lim x->0 2x/x = 2
lim x->0 2000x/x = 2000

both are 0/0, yet have different answers.

 

All I can see are bananas.

 

Thanks. Takes one... and all that.

 

No personal attacks.

 

So get in good enough shape to run/trot 94 feet at least twice and never actually dribble the ball. The key would be to make the shot i think? right? Can i call a timeout during that minute?