How does the NBA define improvement?
Historical votes for Most Improved Player don't give a clear answer. Sometimes, the award goes to a player who didn't get much better but instead maintained his performance in a substantially larger role. Other times, visible growth and development leads to more valuable play.
Here, we're taking both methods into account while remaining entirely objective.
My total points added metric (TPA, which is explained in full throughout this article) shows how many more points a player added than an average contributor would have in the same number of minutes, and it will serve as our baseline. Improvement is quite simply defined as TPA during the 2015-16 season minus TPA during the 2014-15 campaign.
In order to qualify, players must have suited up in at least 60 games during the previous go-round, or else we'd be looking at Paul George, Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony as improved players simply because they've stayed healthy. However, it makes no difference if the improvement takes someone from terrible to mediocre, mediocre to good or good to great. You will see some stars show up on th ...
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