Ranking the Best UAAP Season 82 Basketball Players Part 2: Game Score
This series will use different advanced basketball stats and metrics to rank the best UAAP Season 82 Basketball Players.
As defined by nbastuffer.com, game score is a player evaluation metric which can be considered as a simple and linear version of the Player Efficiency Rating (PER) by John Hollinger. Though in contrast to the PER, game score does not take into account the league pace and the stats that the metric uses simply adds it up according to its given weights. This is the formula for game score:
To simplify the formula, the following weights are given to each stats as seen below:
The metric values Points and Steals the most which is likely due to a point and a steal results to a score. Offensive rebounds, assists and blocks come in second. Just like the points created metric, turnovers has the most negative in the metric followed by field goal attempts. This may nerf some of the bigs due to rebounds and blocks having less weight when compared to how points created weighted the stats.
Here are the top 10 players based on the metric game score:
10. Dave Ildefonso (NU Bulldogs)
Points Per Game: 17.14 (4th Highest)
Assists Per Game: 2.14 (Top 15%)
Rebounds Per Game: 5.93 (Top 15%)
Steals Per Game: 1.07 (7th Highest)
Blocks Per Game: 0.29 (Top 25%)
Turnovers Per Game: 3.64 (2nd Highest)
9. Lenda Douanga (AdU Soaring Falcons)
Points Per Game: 10.86 (Top 15%)
Assists Per Game: 0.29 (Bottom 25%)
Rebounds Per Game: 13.07 (3rd Highest)
Steals Per Game: 0.36 (Top 50%)
Blocks Per Game: 1.36 (4th Highest)
Turnovers Per Game: 2.07 (Top 20%)
8. Justine Baltazar (DLSU Green Archers)
Points Per Game: 15.14 (7th Highest)
Assists Per Game: 1.29 (Top 30%)
Rebounds Per Game: 11.79 (4th Highest)
Steals Per Game: 0.21 (Bottom 25%)
Blocks Per Game: 1.07 (9th Highest)
Turnovers Per Game: 2.50 (Top 10%)
7. Kobe Paras (UP Fighting Maroons)
Points Per Game: 17.42 (3rd Highest)
Assists Per Game: 1.92 (Top 20%)
Rebounds Per Game: 5.67 (Top 15%)
Steals Per Game: 1.17 (5th Highest)
Blocks Per Game: 1.33 (6th Highest)
Turnovers Per Game: 2.50 (Top 10%)
6. Jamie Malonzo (DLSU Green Archers)
Points Per Game: 15.77 (6th Highest)
Assists Per Game: 1.62 (Top 25%)
Rebounds Per Game: 9.92 (8th Highest)
Steals Per Game: 0.31 (Top 50%)
Blocks Per Game: 0.54 (Top 15%)
Turnovers Per Game: 2.69 (9th Highest)
5. Rey Suerte (UE Red Warriors)
Points Per Game: 17.57 (2nd Highest)
Assists Per Game: 3.86 (5th Highest)
Rebounds Per Game: 6.79 (Top 15%)
Steals Per Game: 1.21 (4th Highest)
Blocks Per Game: 0.93 (Top 10%)
Turnovers Per Game: 3.36 (3rd Highest)
4. Alex Diakhite (UE Red Warriors)
Points Per Game: 17.62 (1st Highest)
Assists Per Game: 2.31 (Top 15%)
Rebounds Per Game: 13.69 (2nd Highest)
Steals Per Game: 0.54 (Top 25%)
Blocks Per Game: 1.46 (3rd Highest)
Turnovers Per Game: 5.31 (Highest)
3. Angelo Kouame (ADMU Blue Eagles)
Points Per Game: 12.50 (Top 10%)
Assists Per Game: 1.43 (Top 30%)
Rebounds Per Game: 11.79 (4th Highest)
Steals Per Game: 0.86 (Top 10%)
Blocks Per Game: 3.86 (Highest)
Turnovers Per Game: 2.93 (5th Highest)
2. Bright Akhuetie (UP Fighting Maroons)
Points Per Game: 14.29 (8th Highest)
Assists Per Game: 2.07 (Top 15%)
Rebounds Per Game: 11.64 (6th Highest)
Steals Per Game: 1.57 (Highest)
Blocks Per Game: 0.64 (Top 15%)
Turnovers Per Game: 2.14 (Top 15%)
1. Soulemane Chabi Yo (UST Growling Tigers)
Points Per Game: 16.93 (5th Highest)
Assists Per Game: 1.29 (Top 30%)
Rebounds Per Game: 14.71 (Highest)
Steals Per Game: 0.57 (Top 25%)
Blocks Per Game: 0.93 (Top 10%)
Turnovers Per Game: 1.43 (Top 30%)
