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If you are interested in who is going to make\u00a0teammates shooting better in the regular season, this picture may give you some clue. X-axis shows the usage rate and Y-axis shows the true shooting percentage. Evidently, Curry does much better than other key players.<\/p>\n
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This picture also shows Curry, James and Westbrook\u00a0have big influence on their teams, while Harden and Leonard does not. After you reading those two pictures, do you really\u00a0want to change your mind for voting Curry but not Harden?<\/p>\n
Data is not deceivable, but the man who made it is deceivable, because he must have\u00a0the “Goal” or “Point” before starting drawing the picture,\u00a0the title of the article is “The case for Curry the MVP”, also you can find another article called “The case for Harden the MVP”.\u00a0And so on so for. If you really want to make a “fair” decision on voting the MVP, you may need couple of days or weeks to research huge amount of data, analyze them from varieties of angles and make conclusion. And even if you can do this, do you really hope every fan would do the same things as you? Impossible. In fact, Fans get used to easily understood data such as raw data (points, rebounds, assists) to pick up MVP, that’s the domain they agreed (At least most of them). Althrough these reports are really good, telling stories from different angles, they are not convincible to different\u00a0groups of audience.\u00a0I like those reports and you can say I am the\u00a0audience of the article, but not all of us. That’s what I want to say, \u00a0certain analysis report only suitable to its certain audience.<\/p>\n
Source:\u00a0https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-case-for-stephen-curry-mvp\/<\/p>\n