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ESPN dropped their RPM numbers today for the season and some encouraging early results for the Lakers.




Encouraging stuff is that both our SGs are top 10 in the league in RPM, who would have predicted that would be our strongest position the year after Kobe retired?

D'Angelo is 12th in RPM for all PGs and Randle is highest among PFs, also the highest rated player on our squad at 39th in the league.

We also have 3 players in the top 25 for offensive RPM in Lou (20), Nick Young(21) and D'Angelo (25), while Nance (28) and Tarik Black (33) are the highest rated defensive players.

https://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/RPM

BEAAASSSTT!!!

Williams, Young, and DLo are killing it on the offensive end. Randle only player with positive impact on both sides. Clarkson negative on both sides and down that low overall is surprising.

dockingsched wrote:Williams, Young, and DLo are killing it on the offensive end. Randle only player with positive impact on both sides. Clarkson negative on both sides and down that low overall is surprising.

RPM has some serious flaws behind it. It's really dependant on who a player is on the floor with. I get what they're doing with it, but all you have to do is read down the list by the end of the season to see just how out of whack it is as any form of player ranking.

Not to say it's without merit, it's just not worth much, imo.

Surprised that Black has a negative ORPM, also surprised Ingram has a negative DRPM.

I'm not a big fan of this stat at all since it is so dependent on your teammates production as well. I would only use it as a tiebreaker when comparing teammates to each other but definitely not against other team players.