Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

Thank you Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode and today it is the 50th episode of the Thinking Basketball

podcast and for that I wanted to do something fun, something special.

It seemed given the Corona break that we are on, the way things are

going on in the outside world these days where there's no sports, it would be fitting

to go back to the very first episode that launched this

podcast in 2018 around the top scores ever.

And that podcast for those who listen to it and thank you. By the way if you've

been listening since the beginning 50 episodes in really really you all make

this possible the growth of this possible so the idea was in

that episode I had played with and debuted this idea of a scoring value metric that attempted to balance the value of

volume and efficiency. We often think of scores as well as this guy like a 25 point per game score is he a 32 point

per game score and then within that context how efficiently is he scoring his

points and there's there's of course way more to it that I've discussed before that we've all talked about and we'll get to in this episode.

But in that case it was really about trying to look at this question of scoring and scoring numbers through a different

lens and so I constructed a list heavily based on that idea and that metric. Today is going to be a revisiting of that and

something a little more nuanced, something a little more advanced. I'm going to

attempt to use a new version of that, to use some new concepts, and really blend the data with the context that the players played in, to think about if we had to only choose guys based on their

scoring prowess who would we want what would that list look like in other words

who created the most value, or even the most, you know, championship equity

in the playoffs or in a playoff type setting by virtue of their scoring? That's the question we're asking today.

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