It’s that time again. Nikola Jokic is leading the league in nearly every advanced stat, and fans of non-Jokic players get more outraged by this every minute. National muckrakers like Nick Wright spout off about “flawed computers” because he has a different favorite for the MVP award. The entire city of Philadelphia seems destined to burn mathematics at the stake despite their GM basing a large portion of his decisions on analytics and helping to warp the play of the league around what those analytics say is most valuable.
I’d just like to go back to the math for a bit, though.