Knightro wrote:j_n wrote:According to defensive rating Moe Wagner is our third best defensive player, followed by Bamba and Ross. Chuma and Harris are our worst defensive players.
Offensive rating shows Gary Harris, Bamba and Kevon are our best offensive players while Moe Wagner is our worst offensive player, I guess we play him for his defense.
Overall by far the best two players on the Magic are Kevon Harris and Bamba.
So either we have no idea who our best players or this stat is absolute trash.
Now I know you're not intentionally arguing in bad faith are you?
Obviously I am exaggerating but the point is if a stat is reliable it shouldn't have outliers like Kevon and Bamba as our best players, that's what happens when a stat correlates very poorly with other measures of evaluation.
My point is that stats like net rating shouldn't be a talking point, I'm not discounting all stats, they are usually very indicative of a player's ability but only to a certain degree because they are all partially flawed, some a lot more than others.