Highest game score ever

[ardee]

For those who don't know, Game Score is a stat that Basketball Reference uses to measure the overall productivity of a player for a game. It's like PER for a single game. Here's the definition from the BBR glossary:

Game Score; the formula is PTS + 0.4 * FG - 0.7 * FGA - 0.4*(FTA - FT) + 0.7 * ORB + 0.3 * DRB + STL + 0.7 * AST + 0.7 * BLK - 0.4 * PF - TOV. Game Score was created by John Hollinger to give a rough measure of a player's productivity for a single game. The scale is similar to that of points scored, i.e., 40 is an outstanding performance, 10 is an average performance, etc.

The highest recorded is about 64.9 I think: Jordan's 69 point 18 rebound game, followed closely by Kobe's 81 at 63.5.

How do you think some of the legendary games of Wilt, Oscar and Elgin would rank here?

We don't have box scores for most of the games, obviously, but would anyone know the details of some of the famous ones like Wilt's 100 obv, his 29-36-13 vs. Boston, his ridiculous 24-32-13 and 12 blocks in the same series, or Elgin's 61-33? I'd really be interested to measure just how productive those guys were in overall terms in comparison to modern players.

[Incubus13]

Wilt's 100? Probably 70+
Russell's 30, and 40? Probably 50+

[ardee]

I did a quick substituting of the values for Wilt's 100. Even assuming 0 for blocks and steals and taking 0.5 for total rebounds instead of the ORB/DRB split, the score comes to a mind blowing 113! Can you imagine it?!

Kobe's 81 was 63.5. Jordan's 69-18 was a mind-blowing 64.9.

Wilt just ruins them all.

He's the king of the stat-books.

[The Rim Reaper]

Ardee that is mathematically impossible. The probability of the square root transitioning to the vector is astronomically low.

[ardee]

So just trolling for the sake of trolling eh?