MrSEC.com’s “Total Package” Team For 2010
March 9th, 2010 ║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink ║ Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
With the regular season behind us, it’s now time for everyone and their brother to start handing out awards. Player of the Year. Freshman of the Year. Comeback Player of the Year. Newcomer of the Year. The list goes on and on.
Here at MrSEC.com we wanted to take a different approach. Rather than just giving you our view on the league’s best player(s) in 2009-2010, we wanted to hand out awards featuring some statistical basis.
In an effort to judge which SEC players were the absolute most valuable to their teams during the regular season, we decided to compare players in six different categories.
Now, before we go further, let me just say this — don’t send me emails saying things like “blocks aren’t as important as assists” and so on. This is just a fun little exercise. And if I’d created a formula to weigh each statistic differently, I’d have heard from the math majors in that case, too.
So it what it is. Which is at least more fact-driven than a vote based on some sportswriter’s eyeball test.
To create our rankings, we added up each SEC player’s points per game, rebounds per game, assists per game, steals per game and blocks per game. Those stats show us a bit about each person’s offensive and defensive skills. Then we subtracted from that total each player’s turnovers per game.
Below you’ll find the 22 SEC players who tallied positive scores of more than 20.0 “good stats” per game.
When everything was tallied and figured, it should come as no surprise that South Carolina’s one-man band Devan Downey was the league’s best “total package” of the year.
But the race for the top spot was tighter than expected. Jarvis Varnado of Mississippi State finished just 1/10th of a point behind Downey for the season. LSU’s Tasmin Mitchell also finished within half-a-point of Downey.
Kentucky’s DeMarcus Cousins was the highest-rated freshman on the list, ahead of teammate John Wall and Marshawn Powell of Arkansas.
Kentucky had three players on the list (Patrick Patterson also made it)… and you have to wonder if any of those players would have racked up more positive stats had the Wildcats not been so dad-gummed balanced.
Below you’ll see our final rankings for each player. Only players who took part in 20 games or more were included (or else Arkansas’ Courtney Fortson would have made the list, too).
MrSEC.com “Total Package” Team for 2009-2010
| Player | PPG | RPG | APG | STLPG | BLKPG | TOPG | Total Score |
| D. Downey (SC) | 22.6 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 2.8 | 0 | -3.6 | 28.5 |
| J. Varnado (MSU) | 13.5 | 10.6 | .9 | .6 | 4.8 | -2.0 | 28.4 |
| T. Mitchell (LSU) | 17.0 | 9.5 | 1.8 | 1.3 | .5 | -2.1 | 28.0 |
| D. Cousins (UK) | 15.6 | 10.1 | .9 | .9 | 1.8 | -1.8 | 27.5 |
| T. Thompkins (UGA) | 17.7 | 8.2 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 1.1 | -3.1 | 26.6 |
| J. Wall (UK) | 16.8 | 4.0 | 6.2 | 1.8 | 0.5 | -4.0 | 25.3 |
| P. Patterson (UK) | 14.9 | 7.5 | .9 | .7 | 1.3 | -1.1 | 24.2 |
| M. Powell (Ark) | 15.1 | 6.7 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 1.3 | -2.0 | 23.5 |
| T. Leslie (UGA) | 13.9 | 6.9 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 1.0 | -2.6 | 23.0 |
| M. Torrance (Ala) | 15.4 | 3.9 | 5.3 | .8 | .3 | -2.7 | 22.9 |
| J. Green (Ala) | 14.3 | 7.0 | 1.1 | .9 | 1.7 | -2.7 | 22.3 |
| AJ Ogilvy (VU) | 13.9 | 6.2 | .8 | 1.1 | 1.5 | -1.8 | 21.7 |
| C. Warren (UM) | 17.2 | 1.8 | 3.4 | 1.1 | .2 | -2.1 | 21.6 |
| L. Hargrove (Aub) | 12.9 | 6.9 | 2.7 | 1.3 | .4 | -2.7 | 21.5 |
| W. Chism (UT) | 12.4 | 6.8 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.5 | -1.7 | 21.3 |
| D. Reed (Aub) | 16.1 | 2.5 | 4.3 | 1.4 | .2 | -3.2 | 21.3 |
| T. Waller (Aub) | 15.9 | 3.8 | 1.1 | 1.4 | .2 | -1.1 | 21.3 |
| D. Bost (MSU) | 12.9 | 4.5 | 5.4 | 1.2 | .2 | -3.3 | 20.9 |
| C. Parsons (UF) | 11.9 | 6.8 | 2.5 | 1.1 | .1 | -1.9 | 20.5 |
| S. Warren (LSU) | 11.6 | 7.2 | .4 | 1.1 | 1.4 | -1.5 | 20.2 |
| T. White (UM) | 14.4 | 4.4 | 1.5 | .9 | .2 | -1.3 | 20.1 |
| J. Taylor (VU) | 13.9 | 5.1 | 1.8 | 1.2 | .4 | -2.4 | 20.0 |
MrSEC.com “Total Package” Player of the Year:
Devan Downey, G, South Carolina
MrSEC.com First Team “Total Package” Squad:
Devan Downey, G, South Carolina
Jarvis Varnado, F, Mississippi State
Tasmin Mitchell, F, LSU
DeMarcus Cousins, F, Kentucky
John Wall, G, Kentucky
MrSEC.com “Total Package” Freshman of the Year:
DeMarcus Cousins, F, Kentucky
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