Arturo Galletti is the Co-editor and Director of Analytics for the Wages of Wins Network. He is an Electrical Engineer with General Electric in the lovely isle of Puerto Rico, where he keeps his production lines running by day and night (and weekends) and works on sport analysis with his free time.
“Ever notice that ‘what the hell’ is always the right decision?”-Marylin Monroe
My fellow editor Dre wrote a lovely little trivia post today, where he asked:
Since 1978 only 8 players have managed to “earn” -15.0 Wins Produced or fewer and play 10,000 minutes or more. Can you name them?
Adam, you wanna take this one?
I had a great deal of fun thinking about the question but I refrained from answering it (because really that would be cheating). It did however distract me from a series I’ve been working on long enough to produce some very cool infographics.
What the question actually inspired for me was to think of the bizarro version of an old post from my own blog. That post focused on the Wins Produced All-NBA Teams by Year for every year since 1978. The rules were simple, the Wins Produced All NBA Teams is composed of the best player at each position for each season based on ADJP48 (who played more than 2000 minutes for that season). It produced an awesome visualization
(Editor Dre’s Note: Follow the link down the Rabbit Hole to see the cool visualization)
It looked great and I proceeded to have some great fun with it.
Dre’s post inspired a similar brainstorm but in reverse. Doing the worst seasons is easy. (Editor Dre’s Note: Thanks for calling my trivia easy Arturo!)
Table 1: Worst 25 Player Seasons (1978-2011)
| The Worst Seasons | ||||||
| Rank | Name | Year | Pos | MP | WP48 | WP |
| 1 | Adam Morrison | 2007 | PF | 2326 | -0.190 | -9.2 |
| 2 | Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf | 1991 | PG | 1505 | -0.251 | -7.9 |
| 3 | Clifford Robinson | 2004 | PF | 2846 | -0.129 | -6.8 |
| 4 | Dennis Scott | 1991 | PF | 2336 | -0.140 | -6.7 |
| 5 | Jeff Turner | 1992 | PF | 1591 | -0.201 | -6.6 |
| 6 | Rex Chapman | 1989 | SG | 2219 | -0.143 | -6.6 |
| 7 | John Amaechi | 2001 | C | 1710 | -0.185 | -6.3 |
| 8 | Jason Collins | 2007 | C | 1844 | -0.164 | -6.3 |
| 9 | Clifford Robinson | 1990 | C | 1565 | -0.193 | -6.1 |
| 10 | James Worthy | 1994 | PF | 1597 | -0.182 | -6.0 |
| 11 | Andrea Bargnani | 2011 | C | 2353 | -0.123 | -5.6 |
| 12 | Brad Sellers | 1988 | C | 2212 | -0.122 | -5.6 |
| 13 | Nikoloz Tskitishvili | 2003 | PF | 1320 | -0.203 | -5.5 |
| 14 | Charlie Scott | 1980 | SG | 1860 | -0.141 | -5.4 |
| 15 | Robert Reid | 1989 | SF | 2152 | -0.121 | -5.2 |
| 16 | Allan Houston | 1994 | SG | 1519 | -0.164 | -5.1 |
| 17 | Pete Maravich | 1979 | SG | 1824 | -0.135 | -5.1 |
| 18 | James Edwards | 1992 | C | 1437 | -0.170 | -5.1 |
| 19 | Lamond Murray | 1995 | PF | 2556 | -0.094 | -5.0 |
| 20 | Antoine Carr | 1996 | C | 1532 | -0.156 | -5.0 |
| 21 | Willie Green | 2007 | SG | 1842 | -0.126 | -4.8 |
| 22 | Orlando Woolridge | 1992 | PF | 2113 | -0.109 | -4.8 |
| 23 | Jeff Turner | 1985 | PF | 1429 | -0.161 | -4.8 |
| 24 | Mark Macon | 1992 | SG | 2304 | -0.099 | -4.8 |
| 25 | Jamal Mashburn | 1994 | SF | 2896 | -0.079 | -4.8 |
Taking it a little further though is the key. What if we ranked the Anti Wins Produced All-NBA Team? The rules again are fairly simple. Grab the worst player by position using Wins Produced as the standard, with the caveat that the player must play at least >1200 minutes for the season in question. I then added a dollop of craziness and trickeration and stirred well. Interested?
Nothing interesting here
I did however promise infographs right? Here it comes:
(Click to enlarge.)
If I tabulate the results of this exercise we get 134 names with 31 repeat offenders.The list includes some surprising names. Stars like Kevin Durant and James Worthy make cameos either early or late in their respective careers.
However, this shouldn’t surprise longtime readers of this space as they are very familiar with the idea that too young or too old means less productive.
Been meaning to work this one in somehow.
As for those repeat offenders?
Table 2: Players with Multiple Appearances on All-Terrible Teams (1978-Present)
| Player | Apperances |
| Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf | 4 |
| Maurice Taylor | 3 |
| Ron Mercer | 3 |
| Sebastian Telfair | 3 |
| Mark Blount | 2 |
| Charlie Scott | 2 |
| Robert Reid | 2 |
| Clifford Robinson | 2 |
| Kevin Duckworth | 2 |
| David Wesley | 2 |
| Nick Young | 2 |
| Desmond Mason | 2 |
| Rod Higgins | 2 |
| Jamal Mashburn | 2 |
| Johnny Newman | 2 |
| James Edwards | 2 |
| Calvin Murphy | 2 |
| James Robinson | 2 |
| Campy Russell | 2 |
| Jason Kapono | 2 |
| Rex Chapman | 2 |
| Jay Vincent | 2 |
| Rod Foster | 2 |
| Antoine Carr | 2 |
| Ron Boone | 2 |
| Terry Teagle | 2 |
| John Williamson | 2 |
| Jeff Turner | 2 |
| Tim Thomas | 2 |
| Joe Bryant | 2 |
| John Amaechi | 2 |
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf crowns himself the king of the Team Killers although Nick Young lurks in the weeds to possibly take his crown.
It's like matter and antimatter colliding on a basketball court!
If you’re nice, I just might do the team version of this tomorrow.
-Arturo
Wages of Wins Journal 
Nathan Verney
July 29, 2011
Hang on, Johnny Newman is there 3 times, not 2. Same with Kapono (he’s listed as a PF one year).
Rich Cantley
July 30, 2011
Adam Morrison, power forward? Really?