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How Much Value Do G-League Replacement Players Have?

May 7, 2019November 17, 2019 - by Fox Doucette - 3 Comments.

(Note: An updated and expanded version of this article can be found here.) One of the most useful catch-all stats in the advanced statistician’s playbook is VORP, Value Over Replacement Player. Like WAR (Wins Above Replacement) in baseball, VORP distills the value of a player’s entire offensive and defensive contribution on the floor to one number, defined by Basketball Reference as “A box score estimate of the points per 100 TEAM possessions that a player contributed above a replacement-level (-2.0) player, translated to an average team and prorated to an 82-game season.” Very long story very short, this means that …

Editorial

The NBA Can Kill College Basketball and the G-League Is the Murder Weapon

October 18, 2018 - by Fox Doucette

As a sports fan and an NBA guy, I generally find that anything that moves toward finally cutting the diseased heart out of college sports is a good thing, whether it’s minor league baseball long ago rendering college baseball completely irrelevant or Canadian junior hockey doing the same to college puck. And with everything that’s been in the news about college basketball over the past couple of years, and the plantation purgatory that is the one-and-done rule, it is long past time that someone takes NCAA basketball out back behind the woodshed and puts a bullet in its brainstem once …

Analysis

The G-League Will Kill NCAA Basketball

April 3, 2018 - by Fox Doucette

Darius Bazley turned a lot of heads when he decided to decommit from the Syracuse Orange to instead declare for the NBA G-League draft. He won’t be drafted by an NBA team; he has to wait a year before that happens, and whichever G-League team picks him will have him as a rental for one year. Just because, for example, he ends up on the Mad Ants does not mean he’ll be picked by the Pacers when the time comes. There are plenty of good reasons why this is the right move for Bazley. For one thing, he’ll be freed …

Highlights

Breakfast Special: The South Bay Lakers are the Best Lakers

February 13, 2018February 13, 2018 - by Fox Doucette

For the first time, we’re leading the NBA highlight show with G-League highlights, because the South Bay Lakers put up such a fantastic performance against the Texas Legends, winning 155-114, And because I’m a man of my word… UPDATE: 28 points away. And I said top 3, but screw it, I'll lead the damn show with them. (get me some full-game highlights to post, guys!) #BreakfastSpecial https://t.co/axM4ds62WO — Fox Doucette🏀🍳🥓🥞 (@RealFoxD) February 13, 2018 South Bay shot an amazing 61-of-101 (60.4 percent) from the field, 17-of-38 (44.7 percent) from three, out-rebounded Texas 60-36, led by 26 from Travis Wear, 25 …