LOS ANGELES LAKERS 2008-09 MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS Congratulations and respect are due to KOBE BRYANT, who led the Lakers in quality basketball this season. Congratulations and respect are due to KOBE BRYANT, who contributed more than any other player to the Lakers this season. HISTORIC SUPER STARS KOBE BRYANT PAU GASOL SUPERSTARS ANDREW BYNUM LAMAR ODOM STARS None OUTSTANDING PLAYERS: SOLID STARTERS Trevor Ariza BEST BY SIDE OF COURT BEST OFFENSIVE PLAYER Kobe Bryant BEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER Lamar Odom LOS ANGELES LAKERS FINAL REAL PLAYER RATINGS 2008-09 Regular Season Quality of Players: Includes all tracked actions and hidden defending Kobe Bryant LAL 1.075 Pau Gasol LAL 1.000 Andrew Bynum LAL 0.940 Lamar Odom LAL 0.923 Trevor Ariza LAL 0.766 Luke Walton LAL 0.701 Derek Fisher LAL 0.647 Sasha Vujacic LAL 0.633 Vladimir Radmanovic LAL 0.571 Jordan Farmar LAL 0.557 Josh Powell LAL 0.445 SCALE FOR REGULAR SEASON REAL PLAYER RATINGS Perfect for all Practical Purposes / Major Historic Super Star 1.100 and more Historic Super Star 1.000 1.099 Super Star 0.900 0.999 A Star Player / A Well Above Normal Starter 0.800 0.899 Outstanding Player: A Solid Starter 0.750 0.799 Major Role Player / Good Enough to Start 0.700 0.749 Good Role Player / Often a Good 6th Man 0.640 0.699 Satisfactory Role Player 0.580 0.639 Marginal Role Player 0.520 0.579 Poor Player 0.460 0.519 Very Poor Player 0.400 0.459 Extremely Poor Player and less 0.399 NOTE REGARDING LOW REGULAR SEASON RATINGS Players rated below about .550 sometimes get playing time based largely on factors outside of RPR, but valued by coaches and other players, such as: --Great energy, effort, and hustle --Toughness, such as diving after loose balls and taking charges --Leadership and/or knowledge, especially in the case of veterans --Perceived potential for future improvement in terms of real basketball production, especially in the case of young players --See User Guide for more REAL PLAYER PRODUCTION Real Player Production (RPP) is the factored sum of all the good things minus the sum of all the bad things a player has done since the season began. Starting in June 2009, RPP is upgraded to include an estimate for the value of each player's hidden defending. See the User Guide for complete details about this. RPP adjusted for hidden defending is called Total Real Player Production (TRPP). Generally, only TRPP will appear in reports. LOS ANGELES LAKERS FINAL TOTAL REAL PLAYER PRODUCTION 2008-09 Regular Season Quantity of Players: Includes all tracked actions and an estimate for hidden defending Kobe Bryant LAL 3180.83 Pau Gasol LAL 3000.49 Lamar Odom LAL 2138.75 Derek Fisher LAL 1578.41 Trevor Ariza LAL 1530.36 Andrew Bynum LAL 1359.83 Sasha Vujacic LAL 818.31 Luke Walton LAL 817.64 Jordan Farmar LAL 663.39 Vladimir Radmanovic LAL 440.22 Josh Powell LAL 313.05 ========== OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE SUB RATINGS ================================== LOS ANGELES LAKERS OVERALL OFFENSIVE SUB RATINGS 2008-09 Regular Season Offensive Quality: Includes all non-trivial offensive actions Kobe Bryant LAL 0.772 Pau Gasol LAL 0.652 Andrew Bynum LAL 0.539 Lamar Odom LAL 0.441 Luke Walton LAL 0.421 Derek Fisher LAL 0.414 Trevor Ariza LAL 0.406 Sasha Vujacic LAL 0.394 Jordan Farmar LAL 0.340 Josh Powell LAL 0.324 Vladimir Radmanovic LAL 0.305 LOS ANGELES LAKERS OVERALL DEFENSIVE SUB RATINGS 2008-09 Regular Season Defending Quality: Includes both tracked and hidden defending Lamar Odom LAL 0.482 Andrew Bynum LAL 0.402 Trevor Ariza LAL 0.360 Pau Gasol LAL 0.348 Kobe Bryant LAL 0.302 Luke Walton LAL 0.281 Vladimir Radmanovic LAL 0.266 Sasha Vujacic LAL 0.239 Derek Fisher LAL 0.233 Jordan Farmar LAL 0.217 Josh Powell LAL 0.122 The breakdown between hidden and unhidden is available on request. THE USER GUIDE for this and other reports using Real Player Rating IS UPDATED SUBSTANTIALLY as of June 9, 2009. You must use the User Guide if you want to fully understand the value of the ratings, and also to best determine how you could best use them.
lol...you hated on the Nugs and then disappeared after they made a run in the playoffs...lol...gotta give you shit! ...and thank you
I may have time to post some other teams, and I will definitely make the time to post the ratings for the NBA as a whole, probably this weekend. It's flip a coin right now as to whether I'll have time to post stuff here on a regular basis, as in the past. It could go either way. I have a big workload but I can trim it back if I really want to. There are improvements from last March. A good improvement is that the Production counts now include a good estimate for hidden defending. The Lakers were the only team with 4 superstars this year. One hell of a team, a true Championship team. I loved the way Kobe Bryant and the Lakers said to the Nuggets: "Nice try, but you don't have a monopoly on toughness, and toughness alone doesn't win a Championship".
