How good is your team (on paper)? [As of day 20] $

[Tigertecz]

OK so everyone in sims knows only the Commissioner can truly know how good players are, based on their numerical ratings. Us GM's can only go on stats, and what we see by letter grade ratings. The letter grade ratings give us an idea of how good a player is on paper. How well they sim depends on many factors, such as height, weight, numerical values behind the ratings, opposing players, tactics etc etc. But, the main thing we get to look at is letter grades in valuing a player.

There have been a couple of articles recently regarding most valuable players etc, but in this article I tried to be a little bit original, and rank teams on how good they are on paper, i.e. how good each team is, based on the letter grade ratings of their players. I set it up so each letter grade is assigned a numerical value from -7 to +8 as follows:

+8 : A+
+7 : A
+5 : A-
+3 : B+
+2 : B
+1 : B-
±0 : C+
-1 : C
-2 : C-
-3 : D+
-4 : D
-5 : D-
-6 : F+
-7 : F

With these values I was able to come up with a complete numerical value for each player by adding up their ratings, and then add up the ratings across every player on each team to give each team a numerical value. Because I wanted to focus on how good players / teams are, rather than how valuable they are, I omitted "potential" ratings from the calculations as they do not impact how good a player is. What I have come up with below, is each team, ranked by their ratings, on paper, along with their total points and their top scoring players. Also below are the top ten players in the league... you guessed it, on paper

Hopefully it will be of some interest and will generate some discussion... if not... bleh I tried lol. Also note, these were done with the rosters as of Day 20, so apologies if some rosters are not updated or whatever.

TEAM RANKINGS (on paper)

Rank - Total Points - Team - Top Scoring Player (with points)

1: 70 Indiana Pacers* (Shawn Marion = 14)
2: 68 Vancouver Grizzlies** (Dwayne Wade = 18)
2: 68 Los Angeles Clippers (Gilbert Arenas = 20)
4: 67 Portland Trailblazers (Dirk Nowitzki = 18)
5: 66 Los Angeles Lakers (Chauncey Billups = 16)
6: 61 Philadelphia 76ers (Jermaine O'Neal = 15)
6: 61 Chicago Bulls***** (DeShawn Stevenson = 22)
8: 58 Cleveland Cavaliers (Stephen Jackson = 17)
9: 50 Golden State Warriors** (LeBron James = 23)
10: 42 Dallas Mavericks (Travis Outlaw = 12)
11: 40 Sacramento Kings (Dajuan Wagner = 16)
12: 39 San Antonio Spurs* (Devin Harris = 14)
13: 37 Miami Heat* (Tony Parker, Mike Miller = 9)
13: 37 Atlanta Hawks (Juan Carlos Navarro, Kelenna Azubuike = 11)
13: 37 Charlotte Hornets** (Ronald Murray = 11)
13: 37 Milwaukee Bucks** (Tyson Chandler = 11)
17: 36 Denver Nuggets (Brandon Roy = 13)
17: 36 Utah Jazz (Acie Law = 15)
19: 34 Phoenix Suns (Raul Lopez = 14)
20: 33 Minnesota Timberwolves* (Sebastian Telfair = 16)
21: 31 Detroit Pistons (Louis Williams, Ron Artest = 11)
22: 30 Boston Celtics (Vince Carter, Kevin Garnett = 8)
23: 28 New York Knicks (Monta Ellis = 8)
24: 24 Orlando Magic* (Josh Smith = 12)
24: 24 Washington Bullets (Ray Allen = 14)
26: 11 Toronto Raptors* (Kobe Bryant = 12)
27: 3 Houston Rockets (Kevin Durant = 10)
28: 1 New Jersey Nets (Amare Stoudemire = 9)
29: -2 Seattle Supersonics (Mo Williams = 12)


TOP TEN PLAYERS IN THE LEAGUE (on paper)

1 LeBron James 23
2 DeShawn Stevenson 22
3 Gilbert Arenas 20
4 Dwayne Wade 18
4 Dirk Nowitzki 18
6 Stephen Jackson 17
7 Dajuan Wagner 16
7 Sebastian Telfair 16
7 Allen Iverson 16
7 Chauncey Billups 16

[cliff "woo" harris]

This is actually a sweet idea. Lol @ sixers being 6th.

[Kruwaukee]

Yea this is pretty cool. Never really thought about it before. The future is bright in Milwaukee

[Tigertecz]

WTF Krup a 3?! This shit took aaaaaaages to do lol.

[cliff "woo" harris]

For real, this is at least a 4 or 5. He had to go through every roster and add up their points. Certainly a longer task then most other 5-rated articles.

[Kruwaukee]

May 9, 2010 17:04:31 GMT -5 Tigertecz said:

WTF Krup a 3?! This shit took aaaaaaages to do lol.

LOL I wanted team write ups. I was disappointed when I kept scrolling and said "thats it?"

[Kruwaukee]

Fine change mine to a 5.....I cave!

[Tigertecz]

Lol this took as long as Broph's!

[Kruwaukee]

Broph does all those fancy stats and tidbits at the end

[Andrew]

May 9, 2010 16:57:40 GMT -5 Tigertecz said:

1: 70 Indiana Pacers* (Shawn Marion = 14)

;D

[tmaczdaddy]

6: 61 Philadelphia 76ers (Jermaine O'Neal = 15)


I think I was even higher last season. What a joke my team is.

[tmaczdaddy]

Hughes was a 17 last year

[martinez]

i dont get it

[csdude07]

Nice #2. Wade is so good.

[Brophdog88]

problem is this favors guards, since Posts have a typically lower outside and handles rating while guards have a typical lower rebounding rating only.....I coulda had this done quick, but only since I have a grades system set up so I can sort Potential FA's in excel....adding it up by hand woulda been hell, and I commend you for that Tiger