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Sports and Numbers
All Big 12 Honors 2005-06
Men's Basketball

Methods

All Big 12 players were given cPSAN and cPSAN70 scores based on the entire season, not just conference games.  IMPORTANT: For the sake of comparing "apples to apples," the scores for Kansas players were computed the same way as for all other teams.  That is, the season-ending boxscore was used, rather than the sum of each individual game cPSAN rating.  This means the KU players' ratings are less indicative of what they truly contributed than my usual analyses, but I didn't want to introduce any systematic bias.

Please remember that the PSAN system of ratings don't always match the perceptions of the media and fans.  Looking at the media's all-conference teams, you'll find mostly players with the highest per-game averages in scoring.  The point of my ratings system is to account for the value of all the other statistics accurately to present something closer to the true value of the player, if possible.  As always, boxscores only contain some of the information necessary to assess player performance, but I think there is value to doing this analysis.

cPSAN is meant to represent "total impact" or "overall contributions" to the team, while cPSAN70 is a way of measuring the efficiency of contributions on a per-70-possessions basis.  For the selection of my all-conference teams, I decided to use a combination of both metrics.  That is, who contributed the most and the most efficiently.  I ranked all 109 players in both parameters.  Then sorted them based on the combined ranking.  I decided that each all-conference team must have at least 1 big and 1 small, and they could not have more than 2 bigs or 2 smalls.  "Combo" represents players who aren't clearly a big or small.  With those criteria, here are the results:

Player of the Year
LaMarcus Aldridge (Texas)

First Team

PLAYER Team Class Size
LaMarcus Aldridge Texas So Big
Mario Boggan Oklahoma State Jr Combo
Cartier Martin Kansas State Jr Combo
Rahshon Clark Iowa State So Combo
Jarrius Jackson Texas Tech Jr Small

Second Team

PLAYER Team Class Size
Joseph Jones Texas A&M So Big
Taj Gray Oklahoma Sr Big
P.J. Tucker Texas Jr Combo
Richard Roby Colorado So Combo
Mario Chalmers Kansas Fr Small

 

Third Team

PLAYER Team Class Size
Aleks Maric Nebraska So Big
Brad Buckman Texas Sr Big
Torre Johnson Oklahoma State Jr Combo
Brandon Rush Kansas Fr Combo
Michael Neal Oklahoma Jr Small

 

Honorable Mention

PLAYER Team Class Size
Wes Wilkinson Nebraska Sr Big
Sasha Kaun Kansas So Big
Julian Wright Kansas Fr Big
Kevin Bookout Oklahoma Sr Big
Daniel Gibson Texas So Small
Marcus Dove Oklahoma State So Combo
Josh Carter Texas A&M Fr Combo
Kevin Young Missouri Sr Big
Russell Robinson Kansas So Small

 

Most Indispensable Player
Jarrius Jackson (Texas Tech)

Each team's cPSAN scores form a "bell curve" or distribution.  Each player on the team is
given a z-score, or "graded on the curve," to determine how unusually high or  low his contributions
are to the team.  The player with the highest z-score in  the conference is given the
honor of "Most Indispensable Player."

Big 12 Most Indispensable Players

PLAYER Team Class cPSAN z-sc
Jarrius Jackson Texas Tech Jr 2.498
Mario Boggan Oklahoma State Jr 2.338
Kevin Young Missouri Sr 2.150
Rahshon Clark Iowa State So 2.056
Richard Roby Colorado So 2.030
Cartier Martin Kansas State Jr 1.969
Joseph Jones Texas A&M So 1.946
LaMarcus Aldridge Texas So 1.694
Taj Gray Oklahoma Sr 1.634

 

Big 12 cPSAN Ratings
"Total Contribution"
Explanation of Ratings

PLAYER Team Class Size cPSAN
LaMarcus Aldridge Texas So Big 166.982
Mario Boggan Oklahoma State Jr Combo 120.285
P.J. Tucker Texas Jr Combo 119.658
Cartier Martin Kansas State Jr Combo 108.609
Rahshon Clark Iowa State So Combo 101.278
Joseph Jones Texas A&M So Big 100.670
Jarrius Jackson Texas Tech Jr Small 90.676
Taj Gray Oklahoma Sr Big 87.173
Wes Wilkinson Nebraska Sr Big 86.099
Brad Buckman Texas Sr Big 84.709
Aleks Maric Nebraska So Big 80.468
Brandon Rush Kansas Fr Combo 76.864
Daniel Gibson Texas So Small 75.388
Richard Roby Colorado So Combo 75.375
Mario Chalmers Kansas Fr Small 71.318
Julian Wright Kansas Fr Big 69.375
Sasha Kaun Kansas So Big 68.948
Kevin Bookout Oklahoma Sr Big 61.188
Russell Robinson Kansas So Small 58.894
Curtis Stinson Iowa State Jr Small 58.679
Torre Johnson Oklahoma State Jr Combo 57.836
Michael Neal Oklahoma Jr Small 57.214
Kevin Young Missouri Sr Big 53.627
Kenton Paulino Texas Sr Small 51.458
Acie Law IV Texas A&M Jr Small 51.092
Chris Copeland Colorado Sr Big 48.104
Josh Carter Texas A&M Fr Combo 47.319
Marcus Dove Oklahoma State So Combo 47.258
Martin Zeno Texas Tech So Combo 45.859
David Hoskins Kansas State So Combo 45.047
C.J. Giles Kansas So Big 42.234
Jason Dourisseau Nebraska Sr Combo 40.682
Martane Freeman Colorado Sr Combo 39.615
Will Blalock Iowa State Jr Small 38.991
Dominique Kirk Texas A&M So Small 37.870
David Monds Oklahoma State Jr Big 36.803
Antanas Kavaliauskas Texas A&M Jr Big 34.196
Jiri Hubalek Iowa State Jr Big 33.782
Thomas Gardner