Here is a quick follow-up to my Huffington Post column on the most overrated scorers in the NBA. Th most overrated scorers was determined by ranking the 129 players who played 2,000 minutes last year in terms of points-per-game and Wins Produced. The players with the largest positive difference (between the Wins Produced and scoring rankings) were listed as the most overrated. And leading the list was Monta Ellis, a player who takes a large number of shots but who doesn’t do much to help his team win games (just taking shots really doesn’t help).
At the other end of the list are players who produce wins but don’t score. And a list of these players can be thought of as the most underrated scorers (except, of course, that these players are not really scorers. As the following table reveals, the most underrated “scorer” is Marcus Camby.
Camby produced 18.5 wins last season for the Clippers and Blazers. And he did this while only averaging 7.5 points per game.
One should note that the LA Lakers employed Lamar Odom last season. And in the off-season they added Matt Barnes and Steve Blake. So the Lakers in 2010-11 will be employing three of the most underrated scorers.
We can also construct the list of underrated by looking at NBA Efficiency and the Player Efficiency Rating. Look for those tables to be posted in the next few days.
– DJ
Wages of Wins Journal 
Joe
September 3, 2010
Just reminds me, again, to bury my head this year as a Sixers fan. It is gonna be ugly.
szr
September 3, 2010
My wizards will be worse.
I wonder what it will take for grunfeld to be fired.
arturogalletti
September 3, 2010
DJ,
Good post. As a celtic fan and a stats guy, I both hate and admire the fact that the Lakers get it.
some dude
September 3, 2010
the title was misleading.
I was expecting a list of actual scorers (guys who score a lot) and have a high number of wins produced/WP48.
I was not expecting a list of underrated players who are called scorers even though they’re not good at scoring.
What a misnomer. These are simply underrated players, not scorers.
Curious Guy
September 8, 2010
Prof Berri, I have a technical question: will there be a data page for the whole 2009/10 season like this one: http://www.wagesofwins.com/AllTeamMid0910.html ?
Or does AA’s page mean that was the last one of that kind?