Chris Paul—not Kobe Bryant—is the SportsRatings NBA MVP

On the heels of the news that Kobe Bryant will be named the league MVP, it's time to announce our own algorithmically-determined award. The SportsRatings NBA Most Valuable Player award goes to Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets. Bryant finished fourth in the rankings.

Paul narrowly defeated Amare Stoudemire of Phoenix and Kevin Garnett of Boston. Statistics for the regular season were used to determine the award; playoff stats are not counted.

LeBron James of Cleveland was fifth, followed by Tim Duncan, Dwight Howard, Carlos Boozer, Steve Nash, and last year's winner, Dirk Nowitzki.

	Player	Team	Output per game	Season output	Output per min.	Total score	MVP rating
1	Chris Paul	NO	25.9	2072	0.689	1,427	974.8
2	Amare Stoudemire	PHO	24.6	1943.4	0.726	1,410	946.3
3	Kevin Garnett	BOS	22.6	1604.6	0.689	1,106	890.0
4	Kobe Bryant	LAL	23.9	1959.8	0.614	1,204	836.8
5	LeBron James	CLE	28.1	2107.5	0.696	1,466	804.8
6	Tim Duncan	SA	22.2	1731.6	0.653	1,131	772.2
7	Dwight Howard	ORL	23.6	1935.2	0.626	1,211	768.0
8	Carlos Boozer	UTA	21.5	1741.5	0.616	1,073	707.0
9	Steve Nash	PHO	21.1	1709.1	0.615	1,051	705.5
10	Dirk Nowitzki	DAL	22.8	1755.6	0.633	1,112	691.6

The algorithm (explained here more fully) uses an array of available stats to determine the player's contribution to the team (Total Performance Score), and the per-minute efficiency with which they achieve their results. The MVP ranking takes into account the team's performance, as well.

The stats leader in both per-game and entire season Total Performance was LeBron James. He also finished first in Total Score, which is season Total Performance multiplied by per-minute Efficiency. Amare Stoudemire was the leader (among those who had enough playing time) in Efficiency.

Comments

[Chuck Baumgartner]

Hi,
Your web site is very interesting. Thank you for taking the time to make your analysis and statistics available.
Chuck

Thanks for the feedback Chuck...i'll keep throwing my ideas out there until I run out of them (which probably won't happen soon)