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Message: [QUOTE="VAMike23, post: 3012323, member: 150"] Interesting stuff - First off, I certainly had a healthy Mo Jeff in mind - you're right that she has had injury issues. So basically my hypothetical was a healthy UCONN 2016 team against a given year's cellar dweller WNBA team of some recent vintage. Of course, that team could at least partially be a cellar dweller in a given year because of injury issues as well. Be that as it may, I thought I would look at the seasonal (rather than career) PER's of the five players with the most games started on 2017 Indiana Fever team, because it's how they did that season that made the team cellar dwellers, which was the point of my comparison. C. Dupree 16.1 E. Wheeler 14.5 B. January 12.0 M. Coleman 5.9 E. Larkins 13.8 (Achonwa started the same number of games but had slightly lower MPG so I chose Larkins) ------------------ Total here is 62.3 Only the 3 seniors from 2016 had WNBA PER's that summer, which was of course the closest season in timing and in health to the way they were playing during their 2016 title run: Stewart 22.9 Jefferson 16.4 Tuck 13.9 This subtotal is 53.2 so whoever you pick for the next two players would have to be, during the 2016 season at UCONN, the PER equivalent of less than 5 each as WNBA players to beat the Fever total. Gabby and Kia had 13.1 and 12.7 as rookies but were only sophs on the 2016 team, as you point out. But, statistically, they wouldn't have had to do much to both average a 5. Having said this, I'm not talking about the UCONN squad being ready for an entire WNBA season -- I only said they could be competitive and have a "decent shot" at taking [one] game. Another point to me is that on their own UCONN squad they would be playing in a familiar system with familiar players, just as the WNBA team would (presumably), so this would be a boost to their statistical chances in my mind over a stricltly individual PER based analysis based on their 1st year in the pros in new systems with new players. Certainly there are other arguments that could be made to the contrary. Hope you don't take this all too seriously; I thought your post was thought provoking as usual, so I wanted to do some more digging. Keep in mind what a healthy Mo Jeff could do, [B][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]circa 2016[/COLOR][/B] before her injury: [MEDIA=youtube]lDpJiH7xF1Q[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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