Ranking the starting lineups
Trying to pick the winner of the NBA's Final Four?
Maybe this will help.
Here's how I would rank the starters at each position for Boston, Detroit, San Antonio and the L.A. Lakers:
Point Guard:
San Antonio: Tony Parker
Detroit: Chauncey Billups
L.A. Lakers: Derek Fisher
Boston: Rajon Rondo
Shooting Guard
L.A. Lakers: Kobe Bryant
San Antonio: Manu Ginobili
Boston: Ray Allen
Detroit: Rip Hamilton
Centers
San Antonio: Tim Duncan
L.A. Lakers: Pau Gasol
Detroit: Rasheed Wallace
Boston: Kendrick Perkins
Small Forward
Boston: Paul Pierce
Detroit: Tayshaun Prince
San Antonio: Bruce Bowen
L.A. Lakers: Vladimir Radmanovic
Power Forward
Boston: Kevin Garnett
L.A. Lakers: Lamar Odom
Detroit: Antonio McDyess
San Antonio: Kurt Thomas
On a 5-3-2-1 point basis, with five points given to the best player at his position and one point being given for the No. 4 player at his position, here is the relative strength of the four starting lineups:
1. San Antonio .....16
2. L.A. Lakers ......14
Boston .............14
4. Detroit ............. 11
-- Steve Luhm
Maybe this will help.
Here's how I would rank the starters at each position for Boston, Detroit, San Antonio and the L.A. Lakers:
Point Guard:
San Antonio: Tony Parker
Detroit: Chauncey Billups
L.A. Lakers: Derek Fisher
Boston: Rajon Rondo
Shooting Guard
L.A. Lakers: Kobe Bryant
San Antonio: Manu Ginobili
Boston: Ray Allen
Detroit: Rip Hamilton
Centers
San Antonio: Tim Duncan
L.A. Lakers: Pau Gasol
Detroit: Rasheed Wallace
Boston: Kendrick Perkins
Small Forward
Boston: Paul Pierce
Detroit: Tayshaun Prince
San Antonio: Bruce Bowen
L.A. Lakers: Vladimir Radmanovic
Power Forward
Boston: Kevin Garnett
L.A. Lakers: Lamar Odom
Detroit: Antonio McDyess
San Antonio: Kurt Thomas
On a 5-3-2-1 point basis, with five points given to the best player at his position and one point being given for the No. 4 player at his position, here is the relative strength of the four starting lineups:
1. San Antonio .....16
2. L.A. Lakers ......14
Boston .............14
4. Detroit ............. 11
-- Steve Luhm
1:53 PM
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8 Comments:
Really? Ray Allen's carcass over Rip Hamilton? Really?!
Other than that, keep up the good work.
bench? starter's aren't playing 48.
First off, you can't give Kobe the same amount of points as your other #1s. Second, you're whole premise and point system are ridiculous. Spurs will be lucky to win 2 games in the Conf Finals.
The Spurs might need to be lucky to get two wins, but the other two will be because they're just a better team. Spurs in 6.
With all due respect, this is not an MVT (most valuable team) ballot. Point systems make no sense when comparing teams, games are won based on match-ups, not on pairwise player comparisons. And, as someone else pointed already, you have to account for the benches somewhere and for the degree of skill differential between players within the same position.
The total points are a 'cute' thought exercise, but I doubt they give any insight in terms of the games we will be watching this week.
This comparison might have some validity if the court had four hoops and four teams on the floor at once. But even then, Kobe would make the other three teams pay.
I hope nobody pays you for your basketball analysis. This is stupid.
Wow, I got a link here from ESPN which directed me to this ridiculous rating system.
Looks like monkeys with a box of rocks can blog too, huh?
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