Everyone following the Wizards know Antawn Jamison is the team’s most valuable player this season. I like to put numbers to these kinds of things, so I ran each of the Wizards through my MVP Calculator. The Calculator combines on/off stats from 82games.com with minutes played and a summary measure of individual statistical production. Then I set the MVP’s score to 100 and scale everyone else below. Here are the results for the Wizards so far this season:
| Wiz | Player |
Min% |
VAL |
| 1 | Jamison | 80% | 100 |
| 2 | Butler | 58% | 59 |
| 3 | Haywood | 55% | 45 |
| 4 | Deshawn | 65% | 38 |
| 5 | Daniels | 55% | 27 |
| 6 | Mason | 42% | 13 |
| 7 | DSong | 37% | 9 |
| 8 | Blatche | 42% | 3 |
| 9 | Arenas | 9% | 3 |
| 10 | Young | 28% | 1 |
| 11 | Wilks | 1% | 0 |
| 12 | Pecherov | 7% | 0 |
| 13 | McGuire | 15% | -6 |
So, Jamison is the MPV and Butler has had about 59% as much value to the Wiz. A lot of that is due to Caron’s injury time. Adjust Butler’s minutes to match Jamison’s (who has played 80% of the team’s minutes) and Butler’s MVP Score rises to 82.
Of interest is that Haywood has overtaken Stevenson for the #3 slot — he’d been trailing Deshawn for most of the season. Also worth noting is Songaila’s leap from hanging out with Pecherov and McGuire to seventh. His play has improved significantly.
I’ll be publishing more about this in the coming days over at RealGM — talking about who comes out as the league’s MVP.
PS — Don’t ask me why the table looks like that. It’s formatted perfectly in the writing page.
