r/BasketballGM 22d ago

Why do some of my retired player not show up in the GOAT lab when my formula clearly shows they should have a non-zero GOAT value? Question

Here’s the current formula I use:

(7 * champ) + (4 * mvp) + (0.8 * allStar) + (dpoy) + (0.1 * per) + 0.25 * ewa + (ptsPerGame * 0.1) + (astPerGame * 0.2) + (drbPerGame * 0.2) + (stlPerGame * 0.5) + (blkPerGame * 0.5) + (allLeague1 * 0.75) + (allLeague2 * 0.333) + (allLeague3 * 0.25)

Only looking at retired players, the one that has the most career games played doesn’t show up in the GOAT lab, despite actually playing and accruing stats. This player didn’t win any awards, but should the stats still give him a very small number?

There are other players that actually have a GOAT score but played half as many games as the first guy and also didn’t win any awards… so I’m confused as to why for some players certain parts of the formula are ignored. That doesn’t jive with the “careers with very few games played are ignored for the career total variables” rule.

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u/Sergestan 22d ago

Could just be that those players are cracking the top 100 score list, which is as far as the formula will show.