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[QUOTE="jekelish, post: 884736, member: 82"]
Wins produced is not a metric I put much stock in. With baseball you can use WAR because while it's technically a team sport, everything in the game is based on individual performance and matchups. There's no team element except on something like a double play.

Basketball you can't really calculate it the same way. If anything, you could do +/- like they use in hockey but for the most part you can watch a game, if you know what little things to look for, and figure out who is contributing to wins or losses without any sort of equation.

EDIT: And by the way, there are so many things in a basketball game that can't be quantified or placed into any sort of formula because they aren't tracked and don't show up in a box score. What about setting screens, for instance? Or making a pass that leads to an assist? Or on a rebound, being a guy who tips the ball to keep it alive but doesn't get credit for a rebound? Or defensively, rotating over and cutting off a driving lane, or forcing a travel or a bad pass, but not getting credit for a steal there?

Or on the flip side, what about missing a rebound on defense that leads to an offensive put back? Or blowing a rotation that allows for a backdoor layup? The ways that you can impact a game that do NOT have stats are far more numerous than the ways you can impact the game in ways that DO have stats. It's impossible to create any sort of equation that sums up a player's value on a basketball court.
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