Here is my list of Devensive Players of the Year (DPOY from here on) and First and Second Team for the 51-52 season through 67-68.  I used the What if Sports stats and ratings in order to keep the sanctity of the sim.  While Bill Russell IRL would win more DPOY's the stats bare that Wilt would win more titles if this was based purely on stats.  Players were select by position so as to stop there from being 10 PF's and C's on the list, and the only players eligible were players that played at least 1800 mins and the players were only eligible at their listed position (so even though Russell is 100% at PF he is only eligible at C).

Seble, feel free to use this list if it is ok with everyone else here.

Here is the list:

All-Defensive Teams

51-52

Jones proved to be a talented, if unspectacular, floor leader. He directed the offense and distributed the ball well, placing among the league leaders in assists. (He ranks seventh among the Celtics' career leaders in assists with 2,908.) Most importantly, his defense regularly shackled stars such as the Los Angeles Lakers' Jerry West and the Cincinnati Royals' Oscar Robertson. Jones would have been a shoo-in for the NBA All-Defensive Team, but the award didn't come into existence until the 1968-69 season, two years after Jones had retired.

Both Abdul-Jabbar and Chamberlain have gone on record saying they felt Thurmond was their toughest adversary. "He plays me better than anybody ever has," Abdul-Jabbar told Basketball Digest when he was in his prime. "He's tall, has real long arms, and most of all he's agile and strong." In an article in Sport, Abdul-Jabbar also said, "When I score on Nate, I know I've done something. He sweats and he wants you to sweat, too."

In Basketball Digest, former teammate Walt Hazzard said: As for blocking shots, I've seen guys get offensive rebounds and then go back 15 feet to make sure they can get a shot off. They know Nate is there."
 

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Posted by detlef on 4/22/2011 5:19:00 PM (view original):
Why not use one of the many places that has something like defensive win shares and use that for defensive ratings more heavily than blocks or steals? Steals in particular aren't exactly a good measure of who holds the defense to a low effective field goal percent (a lot of guys who are high in steals were notoriously bad at just gambling and going for steals at the expense of staying in front of their man - like Iverson).

Posted by ncmusician_7 on 4/22/2011 5:32:00 PM (view original):

Posted by detlef on 4/22/2011 5:19:00 PM (view original):
Why not use one of the many places that has something like defensive win shares and use that for defensive ratings more heavily than blocks or steals? Steals in particular aren't exactly a good measure of who holds the defense to a low effective field goal percent (a lot of guys who are high in steals were notoriously bad at just gambling and going for steals at the expense of staying in front of their man - like Iverson).

Using defensive win shares would be one way to help estimate defensive ratings for players in the 50's and 60's.  http://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/dws_season.html  Bill Russell has the 6 highest single season totals for defensive win shares according to basketball-reference.

Posted by slymonium on 4/22/2011 7:45:00 PM (view original):
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