It’s time for what’s become an annual summer tradition in these parts: the Wizards All-Doppelganger Team. For those who are new to Bullets Forever, each offseason, I run prominent members of the Washington Wizards through what I call my Statistical Doppelganger Machine.
The machine compares a player’s season to every other NBA player season since 1977-78, by some weird coincidence, the only year Washington won a championship. The process compares players across an array of publicly available stats (pace adjusted), age, and my proprietary PPA metric.
(PPA (short for Player Production Average) is my overall production metric, which measures players against their peers.