For me, the 2017-18 season was about as fun as any I can remember from the Utah Jazz. And while statistical success doesn’t always correlate with fun, an objective test rated this Jazz team favorably, as well.
Which test? Well, mine, of course.
At the conclusion of the regular season, I took to ESPN and Basketball Reference’s Player Season Finder to see where the 353 players who logged at least 500 minutes ranked in each of the following categories:
- Box Plus-Minus (BPM)
- Wins Over Replacement Player (WORP, the cumulative version of BPM)
- Win Shares (WS)
- Win Shares per 48 Minutes (WS/48, the rate version of WS)
- Player Efficiency Rating (PER)
- Real Plus-Minus (RPM)
- Real Plus-Minus Wins (RPM Wins, the cumulative version of RPM)
I then averaged those seven ranks for all 353 players.