Exclusive Bones' Award Races

[stampedehero]

If you sub, I'll be the dom.

Great timing lol

 

[dviss1]

As some of you know, I'm having fun doing some YouTube videos lately.

I thought I'd start a thread for my award race video series. I'm going to be doing bi-weekly MVP and Rookie-of-the-Year Ladders (Basically, power rankings for the award race). I might do one for Most Improved as well. Figured I'd start a thread and update the OP throughout the season and we can discuss the award races.

MVP Ladder:
11/7/2017


ROY Ladder:
Coming Soon

MIP Ladder:
Possibly Coming Soon

I'll sub when I get home today.

 

[SynTax]

Nice video. Really well done.

Agree with your top three, but personally I'd put Cousins at four and drop Steph down a spot. Cuz is averaging 29, 13, 6 with 2 blocks and 1.5 steals. His advanced stats are incredible, too. And I know you're not tracking records, but Pelicans are 6-5, which is pretty good with their dearth of talent surrounding AD and Cuz.

Still, really enjoyed the video. Nice job, man!

 

[BonesJones]

Nice video. Really well done.

Agree with your top three, but personally I'd put Cousins at four and drop Steph down a spot. Cuz is averaging 29, 13, 6 with 2 blocks and 1.5 steals. His advanced stats are incredible, too. And I know you're not tracking records, but Pelicans are 6-5, which is pretty good with their dearth of talent surrounding AD and Cuz.

Still, really enjoyed the video. Nice job, man!

Thanks man! Cousins is hard to place, but if he keeps those numbers up he'll be borderline top 5. Hard to put two players from the same team in the top 10 and it's hard to pick between Davis and Cousins.

Bones You could star on a college TV show! Got some talent dude!

We talkin' campus TV?! That could be taken as an insult!!!

All seriousness, thanks man! Appreciate it!

 

[calvin natt]

What a silly ranking.

 

[stampedehero]

Thanks man! Cousins is hard to place, but if he keeps those numbers up he'll be borderline top 5. Hard to put two players from the same team in the top 10 and it's hard to pick between Davis and Cousins.
We talkin' campus TV?! That could be taken as an insult!!!

All seriousness, thanks man! Appreciate it!

+Seriously "Big 10" network level. You get paid! Compliments

 

[BonesJones]

What a silly ranking.

Thanks man!

 

[KingSpeed]

It's 1/8th of the season. Record doesn't matter yet.

So record doesn't matter but small sample stats do? I think it all matters. Right now, all we have is what we have. I think my list makes the most sense for RIGHT NOW. Which is all you're doing, right? MVP right now. And if your team has a crappy record, you're not a CURRENT top candidate for MVP.

 

[BonesJones]

So record doesn't matter but small sample stats do? I think it all matters. Right now, all we have is what we have. I think my list makes the most sense for RIGHT NOW. Which is all you're doing, right? MVP right now. And if your team has a crappy record, you're not a CURRENT top candidate for MVP.

Every team is within about 4 games of each other. At the end of the season, a 4-game difference doesn't really make a difference in the MVP race. Two games are the difference between 4-5 and 6-3. That can boil down to two plays, and make a huge difference, so why should we dock players for that? That's a lot more variable within a small sample size than stats.

 

[KingSpeed]

Every team is within about 4 games of each other. At the end of the season, a 4-game difference doesn't really make a difference in the MVP race. Two games are the difference between 4-5 and 6-3. That can boil down to two plays, and make a huge difference, so why should we dock players for that? That's a lot more variable within a small sample size than stats.

Yes a 4 game difference does matter. Most of the time, MVP goes to best player on best team. Last year was an anomaly. Also- 4 games in 10 games means they will be 24 game difference over season. 29-53. MVP won't go to player with losing record.

 

[BonesJones]

Yes a 4 game difference does matter. Most of the time, MVP goes to best player on best team. Last year was an anomaly. Also- 4 games in 10 games means they will be 24 game difference over season. 29-53. MVP won't go to player with losing record.

Do you not understand random variation, and how early season records are extremely subject to that??

 

[BonesJones]

First Episode of my 2017 NBA Rookie Ladder:

 

[BonesJones]

New NBA MVP Ladder (12.2.2017)
Fucked up the Lebron slide... Oh well.

 

[KingSpeed]

My MVP ranking if season ended today:

1. James Harden
2. LeBron James
3. Steph Curry
4. Giannis
5. Joel Embiid
6. Kyrie Irving
7. LaMarcus Aldridge
8. Anthony Davis
9. Kristaps Porzingis
10. Nikola Jokic/Damian Lillard

 

[Chris Craig]

An asshole. (Am I allowed to personally insult myself? LMAO.)

whole ass

 

[BonesJones]

My MVP ranking if season ended today:

1. James Harden
2. LeBron James
3. Steph Curry
4. Giannis
5. Joel Embiid
6. Kyrie Irving
7. LaMarcus Aldridge
8. Anthony Davis
9. Kristaps Porzingis
10. Nikola Jokic/Damian Lillard

No DeMarcus?

 

[KingSpeed]

No DeMarcus?

Davis is much higher ranked in PER.

 

[BonesJones]

Davis is much higher ranked in PER.

Yeah, he's also missed time. PER is somewhat flawed too, I don't consider that stat to be honest.

 

[BonesJones]