Original PORPAG post is here. The basics:
- As a refresher, this stat is an attempt to measure the marginal points per game a player contributes to his team on offense above what a “replacement-level” player would provide.
- Major caveats: (1) Basketball is a team, not an individual, sport and (2) this stat tells you nothing whatsoever about defense.
- I’ve set the pace factor at 61.5 (the average number of possessions in Big Ten games this season). I’ve left replacement level at an offensive rating of 88.0.
- This stat is meant to measure cumulative, rather than average, offensive impact. So missing time due to injury hurts you (Hummel/Morgan).
- This is conference-only data (unfortunately for Manny Harris and, to a lesser extent, Talor Battle).
- The table below includes all the players that showed up in the StatSheet leaderboards for all three stats that go into the calculation. That’s basically every player who’s played at least 40.0% of his team’s minutes in conference play, with a few exceptions.
| Player | Team | OffRtg | Poss% | Min% | PORPAG |
| Evan Turner | Ohio State | 108.3 | 29.7 | 94.8 | 3.52 |
| Kalin Lucas | Michigan State | 110.3 | 27.1 | 83.3 | 3.10 |
| Jon Diebler | Ohio State | 119.8 | 16.0 | 95.6 | 2.99 |
| Marcus Landry | Wisconsin | 112.8 | 23.9 | 77.7 | 2.83 |
| Joe Krabbenhoft | Wisconsin | 118.9 | 19.2 | 77.3 | 2.81 |
| JaJuan Johnson | Purdue | 112.4 | 24.1 | 72.7 | 2.62 |
| Matt Gatens | Iowa | 112.4 | 19.1 | 89.2 | 2.55 |
| Jason Bohannon | Wisconsin | 120.3 | 15.0 | 84.0 | 2.51 |
| Craig Moore | Northwestern | 107.9 | 22.2 | 90.2 | 2.44 |
| Kevin Coble | Northwestern | 106.2 | 25.6 | 85.1 | 2.44 |
| DeShawn Sims | Michigan | 108.7 | 24.2 | 76.6 | 2.36 |
| Talor Battle | Penn State | 102.4 | 28.4 | 93.8 | 2.36 |
| Goran Suton | Michigan State | 114.1 | 20.0 | 68.6 | 2.20 |
| William Buford | Ohio State | 108.2 | 21.0 | 82.3 | 2.14 |
| Michael Thompson | Northwestern | 107.7 | 19.2 | 83.7 | 1.94 |
| Lawrence Westbrook | Minnesota | 107.1 | 26.2 | 61.0 | 1.88 |
| Stanley Pringle | Penn State | 103.1 | 23.5 | 78.1 | 1.71 |
| Demetri McCamey | Illinois | 101.7 | 24.7 | 78.5 | 1.63 |
| Matt Roth | Indiana | 119.8 | 14.6 | 56.7 | 1.62 |
| B.J. Mullens | Ohio State | 108.0 | 23.1 | 56.1 | 1.60 |
| Manny Harris | Michigan | 97.3 | 32.1 | 81.0 | 1.49 |
| Jake Kelly | Iowa | 98.5 | 26.8 | 85.0 | 1.47 |
| Zack Novak | Michigan | 109.9 | 12.9 | 77.7 | 1.34 |
| Robbie Hummel | Purdue | 107.4 | 20.6 | 54.5 | 1.34 |
| Andrew Jones III | Penn State | 114.4 | 12.2 | 66.2 | 1.31 |
| Trevon Hughes | Wisconsin | 98.5 | 24.5 | 82.7 | 1.31 |
| Mike Davis | Illinois | 101.1 | 20.5 | 78.1 | 1.29 |
| Mike Tisdale | Illinois | 104.0 | 20.6 | 63.4 | 1.28 |
| Trent Meacham | Illinois | 104.5 | 16.6 | 74.6 | 1.26 |
| Luka Mirkovic | Northwestern | 118.5 | 15.4 | 43.4 | 1.25 |
| E’Twaun Moore | Purdue | 97.6 | 25.1 | 84.4 | 1.25 |
| Jamelle Cornley | Penn State | 97.2 | 22.5 | 90.7 | 1.16 |
| Jeremie Simmons | Ohio State | 104.1 | 20.5 | 54.1 | 1.10 |
| Damian Johnson | Minnesota | 101.4 | 19.3 | 68.1 | 1.08 |
| Ralph Sampson III | Minnesota | 108.2 | 15.4 | 55.7 | 1.07 |
| Delvon Roe | Michigan State | 105.7 | 20.2 | 47.6 | 1.05 |
| Jarryd Cole | Iowa | 109.6 | 14.1 | 55.3 | 1.03 |
| Durrell Summers | Michigan State | 101.3 | 21.4 | 56.3 | 0.99 |
| Chester Frazier | Illinois | 101.7 | 13.4 | 85.8 | 0.97 |
| Devan Dumes | Indiana | 99.1 | 25.7 | 54.8 | 0.96 |
| Raymar Morgan | Michigan State | 103.4 | 21.4 | 45.3 | 0.92 |
| Chris Allen | Michigan State | 101.2 | 24.5 | 46.0 | 0.91 |
| Chris Kramer | Purdue | 105.3 | 12.7 | 64.4 | 0.87 |
| Jon Leuer | Wisconsin | 97.1 | 24.4 | 59.5 | 0.81 |
| Keaton Grant | Purdue | 97.8 | 17.8 | 69.3 | 0.74 |
| Verdell Jones III | Indiana | 93.2 | 27.3 | 80.1 | 0.70 |
| Laval Lucas-Perry | Michigan | 98.4 | 22.3 | 49.7 | 0.70 |
| Devan Bawinkel | Iowa | 101.2 | 12.1 | 65.0 | 0.64 |
| Nick Williams | Indiana | 94.6 | 22.1 | 65.5 | 0.59 |
| John Shurna | Northwestern | 98.3 | 21.3 | 42.6 | 0.58 |
| Travis Walton | Michigan State | 99.1 | 11.5 | 71.5 | 0.56 |
| Jeremy Nash | Northwestern | 97.4 | 14.1 | 55.2 | 0.45 |
| Danny Morrissey | Penn State | 98.2 | 14.9 | 46.8 | 0.44 |
| Lewis Jackson | Purdue | 92.9 | 20.7 | 58.8 | 0.37 |
| Stu Douglass | Michigan | 93.2 | 17.0 | 55.0 | 0.30 |
| P.J. Hill | Ohio State | 94.6 | 14.4 | 45.4 | 0.26 |
| Al Nolen | Minnesota | 90.7 | 20.1 | 62.2 | 0.21 |
| Blake Hoffarber | Minnesota | 92.2 | 14.7 | 52.6 | 0.20 |
| Marcus Green | Purdue | 92.5 | 15.6 | 40.4 | 0.18 |
| Devoe Joseph | Minnesota | 90.9 | 21.6 | 45.1 | 0.17 |
| Tom Pritchard | Indiana | 86.4 | 20.6 | 71.6 | (0.14) |
| Colton Iverson | Minnesota | 85.0 | 18.6 | 41.1 | (0.14) |
| Aaron Fuller | Iowa | 82.8 | 18.0 | 41.2 | (0.24) |
Your conference Player of the Year is either Evan Turner or Kalin Lucas, hinging on whether you’re a “one guy who clearly put his team on his back” or a “less dominant player who was part of a deeper/more successful team” kind of a person. The only other plausible candidate in my book is JaJuan Johnson, if you account for his defensive value as a shot blocker.
I didn’t have time to do a complete set of all-conference picks this year. That won’t stop me from critiquing the coaches’ and media’s picks later tonight, though.
