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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 198560, member: 767"]
Sure. Like remember the year Brian Cardinal lead the league in true shooting%? That was a fluke. He isn't really the best shooter in the league. But he made 44% of his 3's that year, for whatever reason. Also, I'm a little confused about the Cardinal thing; the one year he had a high PER he was 32nd int he league in PER. it isn't like it was saying he was one of the best players in the league or anything. In his career, he has 2 years where his PER was above league average, and one year was a 28 game season. Both times he had true shooting percentages over 60%. I am not quite sure what the issue with Cardinal is. Guys sometimes have fluky years where they make a ton of their 3's.

As would I. (And as would PER for that matter, which has Iverson with a higher career mark. And since Maggette is a defense liability and Iverson could play some D, the gap would be even bigger).
 
And as for the OP, I am not sure
A) what PER is worth on the college level, and on any l evel in just predicting a game, and
B) how those rankings show us to be better.
 
And I don't want to come off as a slave to PER.  It's fine, for wh at it is.  It doesn't really look at defense at all.  It's mainly an offensive stat, and even in that, you always need to consider how players interact with one another on the court and all that good stuff.
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