Your PORPAG-based all-Big Ten teams

Points Over Replacement Per Adjusted Game (PORPAG):

--Estimates the average number of points a player has produced above "replacement level"--i.e. what the 10th guy on an average team would get you if you had to use him instead--in a typical game.

--Like all basketball statistics, occurs within the context of a team dynamic (particularly true for low-usage guys).

--Tells you absolutely nothing about a player's defensive performance.

The numbers below are based on conference-only data from StatSheet. Replacement level is set at 88.0; pace is set at 62 possessions/game; the table covers the top 67 players in the conference by minutes played. Origins of PORPAG are here. Here are the numbers from 2010, 2011, and 2012.

Data dump:

I move that the top four guys on this list all go pro early and everyone else stays. All in favor? Motion approved.

Trey Burke was head and shoulders above the rest of the league offensively. The conference (and arguably national) player of the year race comes down to whether you think Oladipo's defense makes up the gap. It's close--Oladipo is a game-changer defensively--but I think you have to recognize that Burke is no slouch defensively, either (we've all spent the last week trying to block out the biggest defensive play he made this year). And I think you also have to recognize that Oladipo's supporting cast was stronger than Burke's down the stretch. So I vote for Burke.

Here are my personal picks for the all-Big Ten teams, accounting for the numbers above, defensive value, nonconference performance, and other things of a subjective nature.

(I'm probably not giving D.J. Newbill his due, but I gotta trust the numbers, man. It's my thing.)

Sixth Man: Dekker

Freshman: Harris

Coach of the Year: Fran McCaffrey (20 wins, #30 in the country per KenPom, .500 record in the toughest conference in the country, only one senior in the rotation, why the heck not)

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