Smitty, do you know what the WINS stat is?
WINS: "RPM Wins" provide an estimate of the number of wins each player has contributed to his team's win total on the season. RPM Wins include the player's Real Plus-Minus and his number of possessions played.
Do you know how RPM is calculated or how RPM and minutes played is converted to this mystical "wins" stat?
No. the answer is no.
AB missed 27 games this year and RPM is a very suspect stat.
Why not share how it's calculated and accordingly, why Bradley's may be an underestimate?
Because ESPN hides their metrics which is total BS.
Seems to me that they take their flawed but interesting RPM stat (which is just a modified version of aBPM) and multiply it by a coefficient and possessions played or something like that. AB missing 27 games is gone severely depress his "wins" in that case. RPM is cool but because they refuse to disclose their formulas you can't really evaluate the stat.
The concept of RPM is to take every stint by every player in the league and create a massive system of equations. You solve the system and each player gets a rating. Adjusted box plus minus added some
Edited. Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline. to account for back to backs and home and away splits and some other stuff, but because ESPN won't explain how they generate their stat, it can't really be evaluated.
2nd, RPM is an impact stat, not an ability stat. I don't think (again cus ESPN sucks I don't know) that RPM accounts for positions and matchups. If you have our best players on the floor you've got 3 guards crowder and horford. This lineup doesn't matchup well defensively but it has 4 good defensive players. Why because they are forced to play out of position and out of their comfort zones. My personal favorite example is with marcus smart. If we toss Marcus to the wolves and say go defend a power forward and Marcus defends him at the same level of an average defensive PF he will be rated in RPM, for that stint as an average defender. Meaning his RPM will take a hit because he was able to adequately defend a big. That's absurd Marcus is obviously more valuable because of his ability to defend multiple positions adequately, but RPM Wouls rate him higher if he just gaurded shooting guards so he was constantly having a top notch impact on the game.
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