02-05-2022, 01:26 PM
(02-05-2022, 11:22 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Good stuff.
If you play around with metrics like LEBRON and EPM, you find that JB and DFS are in the area of the 20th best player at their position. Maxi is toward the bottom of the top 30 (so a bad starter and excellent bench guy). RB and THJ are similar...bad starter, excellent bench... and Powell is more of an above average bench guy by these metrics. So in theory, when everyone is healthy, we have two top 10 starters and a bunch of 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th men. If you could consolidate just one of those slots without giving up too much and come up with a guy in the 8-14 range at his position, it would make a huge difference. Preferably, you'd do it like Balmer did giving up mainly financial assets.
Over-reliance on impenetrable advanced stats. 19 teams have better players than JB and DFS at their positions? Not buying that. I’m gonna start with this: those stats can’t even tell what positions JB and DFS are playing. The complexities of basketball are still far beyond the limits of our algorithms.
I get that I don’t have better objective info to support my position. But that doesn’t mean I have to believe yours.