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Originally Posted by Tallboy
For those interested there's an ongoing project on another message board where each year an all-season Player of the Year is chosen analogously to the MVP but taking the playoffs into account to.
In this spreadsheet, you'll find that compiled into POY shares using the same weighting as the MVP.
It only goes back to the start of the Shot Clock era (and only includes the NBA & ABA), so no Mikan. Here's the top players on the leaderboard so that you don't have to click:
1. Bill Russell 10.956
2. LeBron James 10.892
3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 10.221
4. Michael Jordan 9.578
5. Wilt Chamberlain 7.818
6. Magic Johnson 7.114
7. Tim Duncan 6.409
8. Larry Bird 6.147
9. Shaquille O'Neal 5.974
10. Julius Erving 5.046
Incidentally, I've recently created my own individual rough draft version that goes back to World War II (which I think is actually a much more meaningful dividing line than the Shot Clock for a variety of reasons) and isn't just limited to NBA/ABA (though it still has something of an American supremacist perspective admittedly). Going to go through it again before I share my results, but I can comment on either that or the original group project if there are questions. |
In terms of a player's ten best seasons by POY Shares, the three I'm most interested in come out as follows:
Jordan - 9.288
James - 9.016
Russell - 9.011
MJ:
