I just have to hand it to the PBA. It has managed to turn its Most Valuable Player award into the Most Voted Player award. Last conference, James Yap got the MVP award after merely placing 8th in the statistical race. The huge amount of votes cast for James Yap enabled the basketball superstar to run away with the coveted award. In this season's MVP statistical race, James Yap is merely at 6th place. But the expected deluge of votes for Yap will surely enable him to win his second season MVP.
What the PBA should do is to simply do away with the statistics in its determination of the MVP awardee. The PBA should just stop its statisticians from tabulating players' performances. The PBA should simply conduct a poll among sportswriters and fans to determine who should win the MVP award. To generate income, the PBA can conduct a text survey to determine its season MVP.
By reducing the MVP into a popularity contest, it will better prepare statistically-superior players from their defeat. It will make these players realize that they don't stand a chance against a basketball superstar and vote-getter like James Yap. And the reduction will erase any pretension that the PBA's MVP award is largely based on statistics.
hahaha!i totally agree!scrap that MVP award if it is merely based on popularity despite of statistics..grrr..
ReplyDeletenapakataas nga ng statistical points ng isang player pero kulelat naman yung team eh di MVP pa din sau un?
ReplyDeleteaverage sp's is DIFFERENT from total sp's.
ReplyDeletegets mo ba bobong blogger?
ur betting for ur mighty LA right? panu nga ba xa kinain ni roger last finals at nilamon ang knyang depensa sa ngalan ng isang JAMES YAP? :D
nu nga ba ngwa ng isang LA last conf.?
season mvp = 2 great conf. he played. not one!
@Mikko
ReplyDeleteL.A is nothing to do with this article even if the blogger is a fan of L.A, eh paano naman ba nagawa ni Roger this conference? nasaan ang team mo ngayon?
hahaha you are simply missing the point.
ReplyDeletethe operative word for an MVP is domination.
MVP dominates the games.
He wills his team to win.
He is not simply a stat padder. Nor even crumbles when crunch time comes.
He hit big shots after big shots.