Hey guys,

Another Friday, another standings:

NBA ROTO League Standings 1/11

The standings still pretty much have the good teams at the top and the bad ones at the bottom (execpt the Pacers and Grizzlies contiue to be hugely overvalued and the Hakws continue to be hugely undervalued, or perhaps their record is only pretty good because they’ve been lucky) Today though I’d like to look at how much it helps to be great at something, even if it’s just one thing, and how much it hurts to suck at something, even if it’s just one thing. Here is a list of teams that are in the top two in at least one category: Jazz, Suns, Mavs, Raptors, Warriors, Magic, Pacers, Sonics, Nuggets, Pistons. Okay, so most of those teams are pretty good with the only exceptions being the Pacers and Sonics who are the top two teams in rebounds which is a stat I’ve learned not to trust since I’ve started this blog as it seems to have no relation to rebound differential. If you insert the top two teams in rebound differential (Celtics and Rockets/76ers in a tie for second) you still have Philly but it looks a lot better. So it appears that every team, except the 76ers, who is among the top two in even one statistic is a serious contender to at least go deep in the playoffs. How about being terrible at something though? Here is a list of every team that is in the bottom two at something: Bulls, Clippers, Bobcats, Heat, Hawks, 76ers, Kings, Knicks, Grizzlies, Blazers, Spurs, Pacers, Sonics. This list looks pretty good (and by good I mean all the teams suck) except for the Blazers and Spurs who are bad in steals and blocks respectively, stats that I decried the importance of last week. However, if we again replace rebounds with rebounding differential we’d have to add in the Suns and Warriors, two very good teams but teams that play at a pace that offsets their rebounding woes. So it also hurts a lot to suck at even one thing, unless it’s steals, blocks or rebound differential for a fast-paced team. Obviously it is more important though to be pretty good at everything (the only teams in the top half of every category are the Suns and Pistons, who I wouldn’t be especially surprised to see in the finals) and it hurts much more to suck at everything (like the Knicks who I wouldn’t be surprised to see get the first pick in the draft).
Until next week,
DL

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