Liaoning easily beat Guangsha, the championship seems to be in the bag, Guo Allen scored a game-high 24 points, the performance of the key period allowed him to get infinitely close to the first heavyweight MVP of his career, but the selection rules are still not friendly to him.
After the first game of the finals, the individual performance quality index score (SPR) was released, but it was not Guo Allen who came to the top of the list, who ranked second in the team with 6.9 points. At the top of the list is substitute Fu Hao, who has a quality score of 10.5 points, far ahead of the rest of the players in the team, or in other words, Fu Hao is far ahead in the FMVP selection.
16 points, 6 rebounds, 2 steals> 24 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals, is this selection method valid?
The CBA Finals MVP takes the SPR value as the absolute criterion, and the selection rules indicate that the player who is the first in the SPR of the winner will be awarded, if the point difference is less than 1 point (modified to 0.5 points this season), the player with the higher total score of the Finals will be awarded. This is a high-level data used to comprehensively evaluate the performance of players on the court, calculated as follows: SPR = score - 2 points - 0.8 × 3 points shots - 0.3 × free throw shots + 0.3 × rebounds in the front court + 0.2 × defensive rebounds + 0.5 × assists + 1.5 × steals + 0.7 × blocks - 1.2 × errors.
Last season, Guangdong's young defender Hu Mingxuan won the finals MVP because of this calculation formula, and his final average score was 6.2 points per game, not the highest in the whole team, but the first Zhou Peng's average score was 7 points per game, so within 1 point it depends on the total score of the individual. Coincidentally, Hu Mingxuan's total score of 41 points, 2 points higher than Zhou Peng's 39 points, so he lifted the trophy.
In that Guangdong team, in terms of data alone, the highest average score per game is Sony Weems' 26.3 points, among local players, Zhao Rui's average is 18 points per game, rebounding leads by Weems averaging 10 rebounds per game, and the total number of assists on Weems is higher than Zhao Rui's 15 times. Hu Mingxuan's only leading statistic is steals, averaging 3 steals per game, and his shooting percentage in 3 games is only 36.7%.
Obviously, the calculation formula is very harsh on the players with the highest average scores per game, because this formula emphasizes absolute efficiency and absolute overall performance, which also means that players who shoot high and handle more balls are relatively prone to the embarrassment of declining ratings. In the end, it was not Weems and Zhao Rui, who had the most balanced scoring and assists in the finals, who won the MVP in the finals, nor Zhou Peng, the defensive axis, but Hu Mingxuan.
Guo Allen is now suffering the same embarrassment, with Fu Hao beating him by 25 minutes and 16 points in 35 minutes and 24 points.
What the data formula can reflect is the relative fairness of the data, and it is clear that basketball is not a simple mathematical game. In this game, for example, 14 of Fu Hao's 16 points appeared in the offensive wave that opened the point difference in the second half, and his efficiency is indeed commendable, and the 24-year-old's progress every season is obvious to all.
Looking at Guo Allen's 24 points, as Liaoning's current absolute offensive core, the defensive pressure he faces need not be repeated. Just look at his scoring time in the game, scoring consecutive points before the end of the first half, in the anxiety of the two teams, Liaoning maintained a slight lead into the second half, after being overtaken in the third quarter, he continued to stay on the field, forcibly dismantling Guangsha's defense several times, and stabbed straight under the basket.
In the mathematical framework, 2 points and 2 points are obviously no different, but in the basketball world, the two points of the strong kill in the anxious moment and the fast attack of 2 points when the point difference is pulled apart are obviously different. There are many ways to pursue fairness, and the way the NBA votes for the MVP of the Finals by the media has also caused Stephen Curry's regrets in the 14-15 season finals, and the cold data and sophisticated voting are better, in fact, it is clear.
Embarrassingly, Guo Allen has already encountered several missed MVPs before.
In the 18-19 season, as the defending champion, Guo Allen averaged 23.2 points, 4.8 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 1.9 steals per game, while Wang Zhelin averaged 24.6 points, 13.7 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.4 blocks per game, although Liaoning's record was 38 wins and 8 losses in the league, far better than Fujian, who was 7th in the league with 27 wins and 19 losses, but in the final vote, Wang Zhelin was crowned with Guo Allen with 353 votes and more than 329 votes.
In the 20-21 season, the league's selection rules did not allow a team to appear two MVP candidates, and under the one-size-fits-all calculation formula of contribution value, Guo Allen lost to Zhao Jiwei and directly lost the qualification to enter the candidate. That season he averaged 23.1 points, 4 rebounds, 8.1 assists and 1.5 steals per game, second in the Liaoning regular season.
This season's Guo Allen continues to miss out on MVP for the simple reason that he has only played 21 games in total, which is not up to the official number of appearances, and directly misses any awards. After the finals first game, Guo Allen scored more than 8,000 career points, which is the 12th person in CBA history, and the second local player after Liu Wei to achieve 8,000 points + 2,000 assists.
In the total scoring list, Guo Allen is in front of Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu, Liu Wei, Wang Zhizhi, Tang Zhengdong, Liu Yudong, Li Nan, Battle 8 local players, of which Liu Wei and Li Nan do not have regular season MVP or finals MVP in their careers, and the lack of top personal honors may be some regrets, but that does not affect their greatness.
Guo Allen's career golden period has just arrived, the finals have only been played once, and the most important rule in the league's selection rules is that the winner can compete for the finals MVP. Although the formula is cold, basketball has a temperature, whether you get the Finals MVP trophy or not, as long as you use all your strength, someone will remember.
Stay healthy, keep hungry, Guo Allen's future career, honor will naturally come around.