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dcd4408 OP t1_j7q6qf6 wrote

Source: Basketball Reference player totals data (https://www.basketball-reference.com/)

Tools: Google Sheets

Methodology: Used top 5 avg. points per season scorers plus Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (record holder). For projections, calculated each players career average points per season and average games played per season and multiplied the two to produce cumulative sums.

The "if He Didn't Have a Gambling Problem" part of the title is sarcasm.

Edit: Updated methodology section.

Edit 2: Line about "if He Didn't Have a Gambling Problem"

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Jdog131313 t1_j7qh1r7 wrote

The projections are obviously not realistic. Every player is projected to increase their scoring rate if they kept playing compared to the last season they played. You probably should have just used the rate they scored at for their final season or fit some type of exponential function if you wanted to get fancy.

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