Sports admirers authority able opinions
about which pro basketball players deserve their massive salaries, and which
ones don't. One fan, however, has gone added than the boilerplate barstool
analyst –- Southern Utah University economics assistant David Berri.
Berri is co-author of the 2006 book "The
Wages of Wins," which determines which players are overpaid with a statistical
adjustment alleged "Wins Produced" that he and his co-authors
developed.
According to Berri, NBA players are paid
for top scoring, so the added credibility an amateur racks up, the added money
he earns. Berri believes that this overlooks added factors that accord to a
victory, such as shots taken, turnovers, rebounds and fouls.
These and added elements are included in
the "Wins Produced" algorithm.
"Wins in basketball are primarily about a
team's adeptness to get and accumulate control of the brawl and again axis those
backing into points," Berri told CNBC.com in an e-mail. "In 2011-12, NBA teams
paid $1.9 billion for 990 approved division wins. This agency that the amount
per win was $1.946 million. Given the amount of anniversary win and alive both
how abounding victories anniversary amateur produced and his bacon allows us to
see which players were overpaid."
All bacon advice was provided by Berri,
who acclimated abstracts from the NBA abstract bump website DraftExpress.com and
from basketball analyst Patricia Bender. All abstracts was aggregate by Berri's
aide Arturo Galletti.
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