For the fourth successive year, NBA Player Tiers have arrived. SethPartnow explains his methodology for his rankings before diving into Tier 5, headlined by names including Klay Thompson and Russell Westbrook.
The main reason I prefer tiers to rankings is that so much of basketball ability is contextual, even for the very top players. There are groups of players for whom the question of “Who is the best?” requires knowing who else is on the team to answer.
First, even the best player value model is context-dependent. These metrics are not answering the question: “How good is this player?” Rather, it is: “Howwas this player in the role and context in which he played?” The tiers are meant to be as context-independent as possible, so some degree of adjustments up or down for players who are in particularly harsh or unkind situations is appropriate.
Finally, there is the issue of time frame. One season is not a long time, even for the best of metrics, so I’d much rather use a multi-season sample. But sometimes that means some of the data in the model is a little stale for players near the beginning or ends of their careers, or for someone who experienced a substantial shift in role mid-career. Part of the reason I have
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