'Players win games. Organizations win championships', then I think it's only fair that playoff success be adjusted somewhat to the skill set of team management.
Pipe Dream Alert:
Suppose you have a) a high PER player, implying someone that fills up the box score at a good clip per minute b) mediocre wins for the team and c) over the span of this player's stay in this organization, there were no other high PER players.
If we recorded instances of such, perhaps we could score organizations that are out to win vs doing something else. We can't really see if an organization is making money or not, we can hazard a guess based on their forbes evaluation of franchise worth, but that stuff is really inflated at times. But we can tell if an organizations brings in more their one player that can produce on a spreadsheet, we can use that as an identifier to that at least these organizations are putting some effort into forming a decent core of players, which is consistent with being a winning organization. Then we can correlate salary spent on said core with playoff wins, and we ought to be able to see the success rate of a return of investment, say money put in vs wins produced.
And I suspect, the Rockets organization pre Daryl Morey would've ranked pretty high on effort while ranked pretty low on success. I don't think anyone can blame McGrady on Yao's or Grant Hill's injuries.
Hey Moofs, you wanna teach me how to write stored procedures?
