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That Championship Season - Q7 by BabaGhanouj

Efficiency Rating can have a few different meanings. The calculation for Efficiency used here is derived by the simple formula: (PTS + REB + AST + STL + BLK − Missed FG − Missed FT - TO) / GP. It should not be confused with PER (Player Efficiency Rating) which was developed by ESPN’s John Hollinger and sometimes calculated by (former) Bench contributor Cavanaugh, who I wish would come back home. Unfortunately it takes a Nobel Prize winning mathematician to calculate PER over 3 or 4 blackboards or on a high speed digital computer.

With regards to the Efficiency calculation listed above, who led the team in Efficiency Rating last year?