PROCEDURES & GUIDELINES
*In your report, briefly justify your decisions after each numbered step
1. Carefully select 8 statistical categories that you believe would most accurately determine the best player of all time.
2. Then, you must decide exactly which statistic you will use to evaluate each category.
3. Determine a weight that you assign to each category in order to signify its importance in your eyes.
4. Using the categories and weights you decided, construct a formula that will determine once and for all who balls the hardest.
*In your report, briefly justify your decisions after each numbered step
1. Carefully select 8 statistical categories that you believe would most accurately determine the best player of all time.
- For example, number of MVP awards, team championships, scoring, etc.
2. Then, you must decide exactly which statistic you will use to evaluate each category.
- For example, "scoring" can be a category determined by statistics such as: points per game, points overall for a career, all time scoring rank, or number of scoring titles.
- Keep in mind that factors such as number of years played will inherently raise a player's overall career points. So do you want to reward them for this durability or length of their career? Or possibly put length of career as a different statistic entirely? And if a player is currently playing still, will you somehow project their future statistics by some method?
- If you believe awards are more important than per-game statistics, you might decide to use those as your statistics to represent a particular category. For example, if a player has multiple defensive player of the year awards, this could be a statistic.
3. Determine a weight that you assign to each category in order to signify its importance in your eyes.
- For example, if you think that assists are twice as important scoring, then you can weight the assists statistics accordingly.
4. Using the categories and weights you decided, construct a formula that will determine once and for all who balls the hardest.