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[Tammo29@AOL.com]

>The rating is derived by adding together points, rebounds, assists, steals 
and >blocks, and subtracting field-goal attempts, personal fouls and 
turnovers; adding >that sum to the number of a team's victories multiplied by 
10; and multiplying that >total by 250 to reach a number that is divided by 
team points plus rebounds, >>assists, steals and blocks, minus field goal 
attempts, personal fouls and >>turnovers. 

    
    I'm not mathematician but it seems to me this formula would tend to favor 
big men who can block shots and have a high field goal percentage.  It 
doesn't appear to take outside shots into consideration at all.  Rebounds are 
more prevalent than assists and big men will obviously get more rebounds than 
small forwards or guards, while it's not unusual for the offense to flow 
through dominate big men allowing them to get a decent number of assists.
  The fact that five big men made the top five in results, and that Michael 
Jordan is the only guard to have won the award, and he only did it twice 
while Robinson won it five times.....seems my first inclination may have been 
correct.