Much has been made of the even, if low, quality of the Celtics roster. While this emphasizes the lack of star quality, it also notes that there are few really bad players on the team (at least last years roster in May). Omitting the outliers James Young and Gerald Wallace, the range of PER and VORP were quite small, if you are trying to back up the eye test with statistics. Looking this up it occurred to me that the Value Over Replacement Player was based on mythical “average” NBA replacement. For our discussion today, I'd like you to consider a completely made-up stat, VOARP or Value Over Actual Replacement Player.
SQ2 Making the Even Range of Talent Work
