ESPN ranked Kevin Love over Al Horford.

[Uncle Drew]

CAN LOVE PLAY DEFENCE ????????

Can you speak proper English?

There's your answer.

[CarlosBoozer]

Love can throw dem full court passes doe

[chips93]

They released the formula for PER, which they also "paid" for. Just saying another instance where they don't disclose everything so they can backtrack if need be. Same way they left this criteria/ranking ambiguous, which you insinuated yourself by calling it "iffy."

there isnt actually a formula or algorithm for RPM. They get the plus/minus for every player, then adjust each value, based on the plus/minus of the players they are playing with and against.

http://regressing.deadspin.com/just-...a-s-1560361469

[The] metric isolates the unique plus-minus impact of each NBA player by adjusting for the effects of each teammate, opposing player and coach. ... The RPM model sifts through more than 230,000 possessions each NBA season to tease apart the "real" plus-minus effects attributable to each player, employing techniques similar to those used by scientific researchers when they need to model the effects of numerous variables at the same time.

[chips93]

DID LOVE EVER LEAD HIS TEAM TO PLAYOFFS ???????????

no way would horford have dragged that minny squad to the playoffs in the west

[TemporaMutantur]

Can you speak proper English?

There's your answer.

In his defense, that's the British spelling.

Probably not British though, so **** him.

[JtotheIzzo]

30 out of 30 NBA GMs would choose Horford.

Stats are the whoredom of the dumb.

[Dr. Ice]

no way would horford have dragged that minny squad to the playoffs in the west

Horford is a two time ncaa tourney winner and has never missed the playoffs in his career. Winning is natural to him.

[Levity]

the arbitrary context ESPN uses when ranking their players is baffling.

this season Horford will most likely be better than Love, impact wise. Not because love is any lesser of a player, but because hes the third go-to guy on the cavs (2nd until kyrie comes back) No doubt ESPN realizes this, yet, they seem to want to rank him according to his talent prior to joining the cavs. Which is fine if they want to do it that way, but be consistent on how you rank all your players.

[Uncle Drew]

Horford is a two time ncaa tourney winner and has never missed the playoffs in his career. Winning is natural to him.

Making the playoffs = winning?

[Spurs5Rings2014]

I don't get it. Do you wanna hear "no excuses" in the play offs when you get swept again? Wouldn't Cavs' hearing "no excuses" be better and save you more face when you get bounced? What's the deal here, man?