I play a lot of Roto Leagues in fantasy BBall- and it's a hard format to assess players in because after the top few players no one plays well across multiple categories. So I was trying to come up with a way to sort players that would give equal weight to each of the standard Roto categories.
Step one - I downloaded season totals for ALL NBA players from last season
Step two - Eliminated all players with less than a 1000 total minutes of play
Step three - Calculated the league average for each category from the remaining player stats
Step four - For each player counted how many categories they bettered the league average
Step five - eliminated all players that didn't beat the league average in at least 4 standard ROTO categories
Step six - Calculated the average for each category based on the new subset of players
Step seven - Divided each players season total by the average. If the average was 900 points and Durant had 1560 points his score in the points column would be (1560/900) a player with 850 points would have 850/900
(This allows each category to be scored independent of each other but normalized to baseline)
Step Eight - Added up the scores across the categories to see who had the highest combined score
(I flipped the formula for TOs since it's a negative stat)
Harden, Westbrook, Curry and the Greek Freak were my top 4 (no surprise)
The top 10 are predictable but no KD - then it gets interesting
Otto Porter beats out KD by a smidge, because in more than 2600 minutes over 80 games he had ONLY 44 TOs so his score in the TO columns was 2.9
Some other real value (in auction drafts for Roto) were Marc Gasol, Klay and Ariza
Now to the Knicks -
Billy scored 6.98 on the weighted score having played 1324 total minutes
Kanter scored 7.0 on the weighted score having played 1533 total minutes
If I had calculated per minute or per 36, Billy was lot better than Kanter.
Just thought this was interesting since Kanter is often made out to be a lot better than Hernangomez. I think based on this I would argue they are very close and Billy has a slight edge. He was putting up points when being largely ignored by Rose while Kanter was being spoon fed by Russel.
I am not saying Otto Porter is better player than KD - needed to call that out, but if you were in a fantasy Roto league with standard categories - he was more slightly valuable than KD last year.
Standard cats - FG%, 3PM, FT%, REB, AST, STL, BLK, PTS, TO
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