This afternoon FiveThirtyEight released a new NBA metric that is replacing CARMELO. FiveThirtyEight claims that it more properly measures a player’s impact in the new modern NBA, “NBA teams highly value floor spacing, defense and shot creation, and they place relatively little value on traditional big-man skills. RAPTOR likewise values these things.” They also made the data open for anyone to download. What’s interesting is it has player data all the way back to 1980 which means ... we can see which Utah Jazz teams were the best constructed for the modern NBA.
In order to figure out the best Utah Jazz squads, I took every roster’s Raptor Total then proportioned it out to how many total minutes they played.