USA Today's GOAT ranking system

[kshutts1]

Championship Ring- 1
Finals MVP- 1
League MVP- 3
All-NBA first team- 5
All-Defensive first team- 4
All-Star team- 0
Season statistical title- 2
Playoff statistical title- 3
Career average leader- 3
Career playoff average leader- 4
Career total leader- 0 (only reason to add totals is to reward longevity, but that is already "included" with all-nba teams)
Career playoff total leader- 0

[Deuce Bigalow]

Here's to make it easy to calculate the GOAT list once you come up with your own formula.

MJ
6

[bdreason]

Stopped reading at 'points for All-Star selections'.

[rmt]

[QUOTE=Deuce Bigalow]
Duncan
4

[Deuce Bigalow]

Using YOUR playoff statistical titles, wouldn't Duncan also have:

3x playoff points titles (99, 03, 05)
4x playoff rebound titles (99, 03, 05, 07)

Those are yearly playoff totals.

Statistical "titles" is highest per game.

[FrobeShaw]

Stopped reading at 'points for All-Star selections'.

Absolutely.

[Rodmantheman]

What a joke of a list. They don't even factor Xmas MVP in.

[Lebron23]

NBA finals MVP is only two points? Stupid poll.

This

Stupid ranking system

Championship as the no.1 = 5 points
Championship as a sidekick 2 1/2
championship as a 3rd scoring option = 1.5

[Deuce Bigalow]

Let me give examples to these so people know what I'm talking about.

Season statistical title = ex. Wilt in '62 led the league in PPG
Playoff statistical title = ex. MJ in '93 led the playoffs in PPG
Career average leader = ex. Magic has the highest regular season career APG
Career playoff average leader = ex. Russell has the highest playoff career RPG
Career total leader = ex. Kareem has the most career regular season points
Career playoff total leader = ex. MJ has the most career playoff points

[Ed Wachter]

What a joke of a list. They don't even factor Xmas MVP in.

Xmas as in Christmas? Never heard of that award.

[Deuce Bigalow]

How does this look?

Championship Ring = 5
Finals MVP = 4
League MVP = 5
All-NBA first team = 2
All-Defensive first team = 1
All-Star team = 0 Since everybody doesn't want it
Season statistical title = 2
Playoff statistical title = 2
Career average leader = 6
Career playoff average leader = 6
Career total leader = 6
Career playoff total leader = 6

[guy]

Winning a championship should be worth less. Just winning a championship shouldn't be the equivalent of winning a regular season MVP. I'd say FMVP + championship should be worth more then the regular season MVP, but not by themselves.

And FMVP should be worth more relative to the championship. The FMVP should not be getting 7 points total while every other player on a championship team gets 5 points. There should be a wider gap.

All-Star MVPs should literally not even be included. Its irrelevant.

Statistical titles and career leaders should not be included. That literally means a player could be second in EVERYTHING and wouldn't get shit for it. I'd say it should just be based on the actual stats. For example, if a player averaged 30 or more ppg he gets 5 points, 25-30 he gets 4 points, 20-25 points he gets 3 points, etc.

And I'm just responding to the idea. I don't actually think there's a good way to do this. So much context is left out in these.

[Milbuck]

How many points for playing with the Bucks? Kareem's gotta be the gOAT

[Rodmantheman]

How many points for playing with the Bucks? Kareem's gotta be the gOAT

screw the bucks

[rmt]

Those are yearly playoff totals.

Statistical "titles" is highest per game.

So by your criteria, if some one scores/rebounds/assists a lot in only one game and doesn't even play in the other games and/or their team loses (gets swept in the 1st round), they'd get x amount of points toward a GOAT system. That shows how flawed your criteria is - at least going by totals instead would mean that he got to the Finals or won.