Ahhh... the fabulous Karl 'hot air' Popper! He of the superrific 'find a swan that isn't white' to falsify the claim that all swans are white (rather than show people all the white swans there are).... or something painfully simple like that.

I remember as a 9th grader, pals and I would look through my older sister's high school yearbook and point out all of the babes we'd 'get friendly with'. One guy, Bobby, pretty much said 'yeah' to everyone----and we called him on it. He said 'not EVERYONE'.... so we told him to just point out the ones he WOULDN'T 'be with' and save us some time. VERRRY 'Popperian' of us at age 13, hmmm? We're all still waiting to be knighted like Karl was..... ;D Karl WAS knighted, wasn't he? =)

Was that the first time "Einsteinian" has ever been used as an insult?
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Sometimes even the most (assumed to be) brilliant among us.... is just full of hot air. All these formulas and theories... See Stephen Hawking. Guy is one of the most respected minds in the world------and after 30 years of pontificating about black holes, he changes his mind on how the universe was created. So for 30 years, it turns out that all he was doing was babbling nonsense. That's IF you believe the (possibly) horseapple pile he's shoveling NOW. Maybe he just doesn't know and never will. Maybe he's just a dope with a good imagination like the rest of us. How quickly should the average Joe get in line to hear what Stephen Hawking has to say next? All this time, instead of being wrong about the universe (or so HE thinks)-----he could have been DOING something REAL, like inventing a portable electric grill named after him. Did I just say that George Foreman is smarter than Stephen Hawking? ;D

Only thing I might have a small contention with in these otherwise well thought out formulas is the name - for the sake of respect to our smaller brethren, lets go with VOTASPELPITA over VOTASPEMITA. "Pizza eating midgets" will never be accepted by the mainstream media, and I think you should go all the way with this thing, obviously. But "pizza eating little people"? Now yr in.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

For the sake of political correctness---it is now VOTASPELPITA.
However, I refuse to change the name of my metric for calculating what % of each carom any player is responsible for. See, every successfully rebounded ball has many things being done by many players to ensure it's security. It's not just about the guy who 'grabs' the rebound. Who made sure the ball GOT TO to the guy credited with 100% of the rebound? There are SOOOO many contributing factors that go untallied. I call the metric: F.A.R.T., which is Fractional Arbitrary Rebound Totals. You have horrendous breath and therefore you clear out the lane---and someone else gets the rebound? You get 7.6% of that rebound added to your F.A.R.T. for the game. You smell and no one wants to touch you and everyone walks to half court to escape? 13.2%. Important stuff like that. It's a known fact that Laimbeer and Salley never bathed. Yet RODMAN gets credited with the rebounds. Look in history at all the great rebounders---and behind the scenes there was a guy/ guys who stunk or said 'pull my finger' alot. Bill Russell's rebounds? Tommy Heinson was the stinkiest guy on the planet. Wilt? Gail Goodrich said 'pull my finger' like 1,000 times a game. Watch the tapes----you'll see.

He can hold two lit cigarettes at once in the gap in his front teeth.

I gave off a literal LOL here. Very nicely done, sir.

Brilliant! It's about time someone poked a little fun at some of the ridiculously complex, calculus-based, Eisteinian statistical measurements that certain crazy websites employ to represent a player's skill/worth/ranking/whatever (which sites are those again? can't seem to remember...). We're not only supposed to believe that these formulas correlate to real-world performance, but, um, understand them.

That being said, I think it's obvious that VOTASPEMITA and BGE should be incorporated into basketballreference's common statistical ratings at the very least, and probably be accepted as standard ratings next to points/rebs/assts on NBA.com. The random thingys multiplied by coefficients selected with 108 sixteen-sided pairs of dice alone make these some of the most credible statistical figures that I've seen proposed... ever.

Only thing I might have a small contention with in these otherwise well thought out formulas is the name - for the sake of respect to our smaller brethren, lets go with VOTASPELPITA over VOTASPEMITA. "Pizza eating midgets" will never be accepted by the mainstream media, and I think you should go all the way with this thing, obviously. But "pizza eating little people"? Now yr in.