11-02-2020, 10:18 AM
(11-02-2020, 07:42 AM)DanSchwartzman Wrote: John Hollinger at The Athletic has a series out this week on Free Agents. He's combining PIPM, Raptor and PER on a weighted multi-year basis to come up with a single rating and then applying 20/21 dollars to that rating. Luka as a free agent, for instance, would be the second most valuable player in the league and worth a contract of $55 million per (the metric is age based). Gallinari is worth $19mm (he was named in the piece explaining the metric). Hollinger thinks there will be a larger than normal number of one year deals this time around.
Today he started with PG's. VanVleet is at the top of a thin class at $22mm. Dragic is a hair above MLE at $11.5mm. One of the bigger surprises (to me) was Burke at $7mm one spot ahead of Reggie Jackson at $6.4mm. He had Jevon Carter (a player I like here) at $5.3mm and mentions Dallas would be a good situation for his skill set. Barea and Yogi are down in the $3mm range. I assume Dunn will be in tomorow's piece on SG's.
Here is what he wrote about Burke:
Tier 4: Less than MLE, more than minimum
Trey Burke $7,131,892
A replacement player in Dallas after Philadelphia inexplicably cut him, Burke isn’t for everybody — he’s small, he’s going to pound the ball a bit, and he’ll take a lot of long 2s. (This story comes up a lot in this free-agent guard market).
Nonetheless, he’s a good choice for a second unit that has limited shot creation, or as a third point guard to step up in case of injury. Burke’s 42.7 percent 3-point shooting last season is likely a fluke, as it’s a major outlier from the rest of his career, but the other numbers are not. He scores 23.7 points per 100 for his career with a 14.1 PER, and although he’s small he’s not a horrific defender. There’s a place for him in a rotation someplace.
https://theathletic.com/2166277/2020/11/...thin-herd/
Thanks for sharing this!
Please keep bringing highlights here please. I am super intrigued about balancing those three advanced stats and seeing the outcomes.