Most Harmful Players of the Decade (by yearly RAPM)

Post #1 » by **Doctor MJ** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:59 am

I've been posting lists of players who have most consistently done extremely well by yearly RAPM numbers, so I thought it would be fun to do one for the players with the worst ratings. I took the yearly values, normalized them for variance, and ranked them based on how many years they were really bad, and just how bad they were. Note that a player so bad he never plays isn't going to qualify so presumably these aren't the worst players, just the ones who have had the opportunity to do the most harm.

They are ranked here (by an arbitrary method I just made up), and listed with how many years they've been -1.5, -2, -2.5, and -3 standard deviations below average.

Enjoy.

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Player              -1.5 -2 -2.5  -3
1. Josh Powell        5   5   3   2
2. Hakim Warrick      6   3   1   1
3. JJ Hickson         4   3   2   0
4. Solomon Jones      6   2   0   0
5. Marcus Banks       4   4   0   0
6. Drew Gooden        4   2   2   0
7. Deshawn Stevenson  5   2   0   0
8. Damien Wilkins    4   3   0   0
9. Jeff McInnis       4   3   0   0
10. Juwan Howard      5   1   0   0

peja drobnjak · Post #2 » by **peja drobnjak** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:04 am

yes, yes, yes, yes, uh maybe, yes!!, yes, who?, maybe?, what??

surprised antoine walker's not on there

C-izMe · Post #3 » by **C-izMe** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:52 am

Antoine ranked decently high in his prime.

I'm surprised Warrick (who is the worst defender 99% of the time) isn't last.

Post #4 » by **Doctor MJ** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:53 am

peja drobnjak wrote:yes, yes, yes, yes, uh maybe, yes!!, yes, who?, maybe?, what??

surprised antoine walker's not on there

Re: who? I edited. Typo.

Re: Walker. I was wondering if he'd show up. So you know, Walker never qualified for my -1.5 or worse 'shame' list, but after '03 he never rates better than 0, and he almost hits that -1.5 mark in his last two years as a starter ('04 & '03).

MisterWestside · Post #5 » by **MisterWestside** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:20 am

Good work that you're doing with the RAPM data DocMJ.

Rust In Peace · Post #6 » by **Rust In Peace** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:08 am

I knew Drew Gooden would be on this list before I clicked on the thread. Terrible, terrible player.

BadNFluenz · Post #7 » by **BadNFluenz** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:40 am

damn 4 of those guys were or are playing for the hawks :/

Social Lubrication · Post #8 » by **Social Lubrication** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:50 am

No Raptors players? I think your algorithm needs work.

SweetTouch · Post #9 » by **SweetTouch** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:55 am

Drew Gooden started for a finals team

LoyalKing · Post #10 » by **LoyalKing** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:02 am

I knew Gooden would be in the list before even clicking

bledredwine · Post #11 » by **bledredwine** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:21 am

dude, Jannero Pargo HAS to be on that list

That guy manages to singlehandedly lose games.

Spurtatcus · Post #12 » by **Spurtatcus** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:06 pm

I knew Powell would be number one before I clicked on this thread.

SideshowBob · Post #13 » by **SideshowBob** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:38 pm

3 of those guys have been Lebron's teammates. 1 was on his Cavalier 60 win teams, and 2 were on his Finals teams.