- By Kenny Blankenship
Have you ever wondered what GAPE means, or what Hero% is all about? Or what is the Curtis Masich “What’s a Pass?” Award? Well, you’re in the right place.
Prestigious Awards
Most Valuable Player (MVP)
The MVP is awarded to the Grinder who had the highest “Overall” rating over the entire regular season.
Matt Vaillancourt Defensive MVP (VD MVP)
The Defensive MVP is awarded to the Grinder who had the highest “Defense” rating over the course of the regular season.
Curtis Masich “What’s A Pass?” Award (WAP)
The WAP is awarded to the Grinder who has the highest “WAP%” over the course of the regular season.
All-Grinders Teams
All-Grinders 1st Team
Grinders with the four (4) highest “WaR“ ratings, provided the grinder has played in more than half of his team’s games.
All-Grinders 2nd Team
Grinders with the next 4 highest “WaR” ratings, provided the grinder has played more than half of his team’s games.
Advanced Stats Explained
Defense
Purpose: The “Defense” stat measures a Grinder’s… defensive efforts.
Defense = (Rebounds/3) + (Steals*2) + (Blocks *2)
Rebounds are divided by three (3) to lessen the benefit received for being taller than everyone else. Since steals and blocks are all that we have left to measure defense, they are each multiplied by two (2) to increase the weight each factors into total score. A higher Defense score indicates a Grinder played well defensively.
GAPE (Grinders Analytical Player Evaluation)
Purpose: This stat attempts to capture how effective a Grinder’s performance was. Although defense plays a role in calculating GAPE, it is heavily weighted by offensive performance. The more points you score, the higher GAPE quickly becomes.
GAPE = Points Scored + Field Goals Made + Rebounds + Assists + Steals + Blocks – Air Balls – Turnovers – Field Goals Attempted
A higher GAPE score indicates a more effective game was played.
Suck
Suck measures all of the ways a Grinder negatively impacts his team during a basketball game. A higher Suck score indicates a lousier performance.
Suck = (1 – ((1 + Field Goals Made) / ((If Field Goals Attempted<=5, 5, 0)*5 + Field Goals Attempted + Airballs + Field Goals Attempted + Turnovers))) * 100
The “5” is used as a constant to offset the impact of players who are not often utilized in a game and have low shot totals. It prevents them from having an artificially low Suck score. The higher the suck score, the worse the Grinder performed.
Overall
The Overall rating was created to more accurately measure a player’s overall performance. A high GAPE may be misleading if that Grinder also had a higher than average Suck score. This statistic combines GAPE and SUCK to more effectively balance the positives and negatives in a Grinder’s performance.
Overall = GAPE + (100 – Suck)
The higher the Overall Score, the better all-around performance a Grinder had. Generally, Overall scores range from 0-100. However, exceptionally poor performances can result in a negative Overall. Likewise, a dominating all-around performance can result in an Overall over 100.
Hero%
Every team needs a hero…
Hero% = GAPE / Team GAPE
The higher the Hero%, the more the Grinder’s Team relied on that player as the go-to guy… whereas a low or negative Hero% indicates the Grinder contributed nothing to his team.
WAP%
WAP% stands for… oh you know what it stands for. This metric was created to measure what percentage of shots a Grinder takes for his team.
WAP% = Field Goals Attempted / Team Field Goals Attempted
A high WAP% indicates a Grinder is, or rather thinks he is, an excellent shooter, or has zero faith in his teammates. This Grinder will shoot regardless of any situation.
WaR
Wins Above Replacement Player takes into account all of the advanced statistics explained above and determines how valuable a Grinder truly is to his team.
WaR = LOL yeah right, Grinders HQ didn’t even tell GAPE Chicken this formula.
Trust us, this formula is legit and does an excellent job of taking into account all of the things a Grinder does on the basketball court – how effective the Grinder is on offense, defense, and how much the Grinder incudes and elevates the overall play of his team. The “James Hardens” of Grinders Basketball will find their WaR is lower than they would like – indicating they are not as valuable to their team as they think they are.
WaR Ratings
- Negative WaR: Indicates a Grinder was horrid and the team was better off if he had stayed home with Covid.
- 0 – 0.5 WaR: Indicates replacement level player (you know – the guys who go for $1-3 in the draft.
- 0.5 – 1.5 WaR: Role guys
- 1.5 – 2.5 WaR: Solid guys
- 2.5 – 3.5 WaR: All-Grinder 1st team type guys
- 3.5+ WaR: MVP type performances