NBA Top 100 Players Ranking Breakdown

After the widespread pandemic known as the Coronavirus cut
the NBA season short, sports fans have been left without any sports to follow
for the first time in recent memory. In lieu of this absence, we decided to
take a look at the Top 100 NBA Players based on their stats from the 2019-20
season.

How Rankings are Determined

NBA Top 100 Rating Keys

Repeated Stats

The stats included in this rating have been narrowed down
and selected in an attempt to not count any stats twice. That being said, some
stats make multiple appearance but carry different meanings. For example,
Offensive Rebounds per Game and Offensive Rebound Percentage are both
considered. This gives us a look at not only the volume of offensive rebounds a
player grabbed, but also their efficiency in the percentage of available
offensive rebounds they grabbed. However, only True Shooting Percentage is
considered when looking at shooting efficiency since this widely-used metric
accounts for 2P%, 3P%, and FT%. Using only this stat allows us to fairly
compare players like Rudy Gobert, who doesn’t take hardly any threes, to James
Harden, a player who makes a large part of his living behind the 3P and FT lines,
and not count any of the respective shooting percentages multiple times.

Negative Stats

Some stats are considered in a negative light and will hurt
the players overall rating. This includes stats such as turnovers and personal
fouls per game. Both of these stats have negative impacts on a game and
therefore will have a negative impact on ratings. Another stat that negatively
affects a players rating is Usage Rate.

Why would Usage Rate negatively affect a player’s rating you
ask? We don’t intend for a player with high usage to be punished with this
negative category, only for players with good stats but a lower usage rate to
be rewarded. For example, a player that averages 25 points per game with a 35%
usage rate will not get quite as much credit as a player that averages 25
points with a 25% usage rate. Both players get credit for their excellent
points per game average, but the player with lower usage receives a slightly
higher rating in this category. The negative impact of usage rate is not
significant enough to harm players like James Harden or Giannis Antetokounmpo’s
rating who run the majority of their teams’ offense. It only serves as a boost
to lesser used, highly efficient players.

NBA Top 100 Ratings – Key Stats

Offensive Stats – 42% of Overall Rating

Below is a list of the offensive stat categories considered,
a short description for some of the less common metrics, and the percentage
each stat carries in the overall rank.

Points per Game (PTS) – 16%

True Shooting Percentage (TS%) – 10%

Assists per Game (AST) – 12%

Offensive Rebounds per Game (ORB) – 4%

Assist Percentage; Percentage of teammates FG’s assisted by
given player while on the court (AST%) – 3%

Offensive Rebound Percentage; Percentage of available
offensive rebounds a player grabbed while on the court (ORB%) – 3%

Offensive Win Shares; Number of wins contributed by a player
due to his offense (OWS) – 5%

Turnovers per Game (TOV) – -6%

Turnover Percentage; Turnovers committed per 100 possessions
(TOV%) – -5%

Defensive Stats – 33% of Overall Rating

Steals per Game (STL) – 8%

Blocks per Game (BLK) – 8%

Defensive Rebounds per Game (DRB) – 6%

Defensive Rebound Percentage; Percentage of available
defensive rebounds a player grabbed while on the court (DRB%) – 3%

Steal Percentage; Percentage of opponents’ possessions
ending with a steal by this player while they are on the court (STL%) – 3%

Block Percentage; Percentage of opponents’ 2P attempts blocked
by this player while they are on the court (BLK%) – 3%

Defensive Win Shares; Number of wins contributed by a player due to his defense (DWS) – 6%

Personal Fouls per Game (PF) – -4%

Miscellaneous Stats – 25% of Overall Rating

Usage Rate; Percentage of team plays used by this player
while on the court (USG%) – -4%

Win Shares; Total number of wins contributed by a player
(WS) – 8%

Box Plus Minus; Box score estimate of points per 100
possessions a player contributed above a league average player (BPM) – 5%

Player Efficiency Rating; Measures per minute production, standardized to a league average of 15 (PER) – 10%

Games Played  – 6%

NBA Top 100 Ratings Ranked

Using the weights assigned to each of the afore mentioned
stat categories, a rating is given to each player based on their stats from the
2019-20 season. These ratings are relative to how everyone else in the league
performed, meaning that the player who receives the highest rating from this
model receives a relative score of 100.

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