Can players learn from BPM?

[DSMok1]

Quick question, when BPM was released, I tinkered with the formula and team adjustments in of all places, the fantasy realm, not H2H or Roto, but rather my created player from NBA2K14.. My player, year in and year out scored 30+ ppg, about 8 boards per game, had an AST% that hovered around 45-50%, always a STL % above 5 (unheard of to do in the real NBA) and as a point/2-guard mostly, drained 200+ 3's per season with a few 100+ block years on top of it. Obviously, no surprise, my yearly BPM's were always in the 20's(!!). It got me to thinking, obviously I was collecting data from a video game, but I had molded this player into a very versatile one. My question is what, exactly are the coorelations between BPM, Versatility Index and MVI ? My guess would be pretty high, right ?

I don't have the numbers in front of me, but yes, they are high. Higher than for any other boxscore metric, because only BPM actually has interaction terms in the regression.

[Mike G]

Hassan Whiteside, 5 games in:

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year  mpg  TS%  ORb%   DRb%   Ast%  Blk%   TO%   PER   WS/48   BPM
2015  24  .619  15.6   34.7   1.0   9.2   11.3   26.2   .221  -0.9
2016  30  .723   6.2   30.7   3.6   9.3   24.7   24.6   .204   4.5

Usage%, Stl% essentially unchanged.