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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4334349, member: 1131"] Can you provide a layperson's definition of "win shares"? Does it work so that win shares are only given if the player's team wins the game? If so, it would favor players who play on winning teams more than those who play on lesser teams, if only because they have more team wins to claim a share of? To the extent that this calculated stat is valuable (and I assume it is), it is notable that Sue Bird is 18th on the list even this late in her career. Nonetheless, the stat seems to favor front-court players over guards: the highest ranking guards on the list are Skylar at 9th and Sloot at 11th -- I guess that makes them the two "best" guards in the WNBA in some sense. It is also somewhat surprising that Candace Parker (at 21st) is so far down the list, and that Liz Cambage is only in the middle of the list. [/QUOTE]