Who do you like? Dwyane Wade? Dwight Howard? Tim Duncan? Carmelo Anthony? KOBE BRYANT?

Guess what, David Lee is having a better 2010 season than any of those also-rans!

Ok, so the Knicks aren’t going to be mistaken for a championship contending – or even playoff bound – team anytime soon, but the stats don’t lie: Lee is performing at a higher level than these marquee players this year. I’ve still yet to tie performance to wins (unlike Berri’s Win Shares, for example) and I’m not even sure if it’s a direct correlation, anyway.This is a team sport, afterall, so a ball hog may end up hurting his team even if he’s very good.

Still, here was the line from Lee’s week: 21.5 PPG / 12.8 RPG / 3.5 APG while shooting 55% from the floor and and 73% from the free throw line. Surely nothing to sneeze at! Yes, the Knicks went 1-3 last week, but, again, there’s still no direct correlation between performance and wins here at NBA Sim.

Yet.

Biggest Jump: Dirk Nowitzki (2)
Biggest Fall: Pau Gasol, Tim Duncan (1)
Hello: Rajon Rondo, Carlos Boozer
Goodbye: Carmelo Anthony, Al Horford
Ineligible: N/A

NBA Top 10 (by APP+)
Rank	Prev	Player	Team(s)	Pos.	GP	APP	APP+
1	1	LeBron James		F	60	↑ 37.86	↑ 28.62
2	2	Chris Paul (Injured)		G	38	↑ 32.22	↓ 22.75
3	3	Chris Bosh (Injured)		F-C	53	↑ 29.86	↑ 19.22
4	4	Kevin Durant		G-F	58	↑ 28.76	↓ 18.78
5	5	David Lee		F	58	↑ 27.86	↑ 18.62
6	6	Dwyane Wade		G	56	↓ 27.78	↓ 18.31
7	7	Dwight Howard		C-F	60	↑ 27.90	↑ 18.15
8	10	Dirk Nowitzki		F	59	↑ 26.64	↓ 17.39
9	8	Pau Gasol		F	43	↓ 26.47	↓ 17.23
10	9	Tim Duncan		F-C	54	↑ 27.74	↑ 17.10

Just Outside
Rank	Prev	Player	Team(s)	Pos.	GP	APP	APP+
11	11	Gerald Wallace		F	55	↑ 26.29	↑ 17.05
12	13	Zach Randolph		F	59	↑ 25.62	↑ 16.38
13	14	Deron Williams		G	53	↑ 25.29	↑ 15.82
14	-	Rajon Rondo		G	56	25.27	15.80
15	-	Carlos Boozer		F-C	56	26.32	15.68

APP – Adjusted Pace Performance
A weighted formula for combining everything a player does on the basketball court into one number. This number is then adjusted based upon the players’ team pace to provide a balanced way to compare players’ performance.
APP+ – APP Above Positional Average APP
Player’s weighted performance minus the performance of an average player at his same position.

Players are considered ineligible if they fail to play in 60% of their team’s games.

APP for an average NBA player for the 2010 season: 9.71
APP+ for an average NBA player for the 2010 season: 0.32
Stats through 2/28/2010