SGA leads Jokic in EVERY ADVANCED METRIC this year.
First off, I'm not talking outdated Basketball reference "advanced stats". Those are box score aggregates and have positional adjustments which is stupid (e.g. BPM rewards centers by +1.2 and PGs get deducted with -0.8 because Myers said point guards have the ball more.) Well this is 2025 and non-PGs have the ball a lot now.
LEBRON (not updated yet, gap will be higher after yesterday's game): SGA has 6.71. Jokic is 6.51.
LEBRON WAR : SGA has 11.65. Jokic has 11.06.
EPM (Actual) : SGA has +8.9. Jokic has +8.3.
EW (Actual) : SGA has +17.1 . Jokic has +15.8.
eRAPTOR (not updated yet but plugging today's game to the formula) : SGA has +9.8. Jokic is +9.7.
eRAPTOR WAR : SGA has 15.0. Jokic is 14.6
Actual DARKO* (not career DARKO, that's different): Shai +7.1, Jokic +6.0
WAR/162 : SGA has 19.2, Jokic has 18.8 (note, SGA plays less minutes per game yet is still more valuable)
Other stats have not been updated yet and I can't see the formulas. Aside from career rolling average stats (e.g. RAPM, career DARKO), Shai is leading Jokic in every advanced metric this year.
It is also easier to have a high on off if you are a heliocentric player (Jokic has the most touches per 100 in NBA history) vs SGA who plays in a freeflow offense. More touches = more opportunities to pass it to teammates = more assists. Also having a bad FO helps your on-off. This is why Kevin Garnett is the on-off GOAT.
All people do is look at rebounds and assists but not look at low turnovers which is by far the most important stat in basketball according to how it impacts winning. An assisted shot is barely more efficient compared to an iso shot.
In terms of impact, that's why rebounds and assists are barely impactful across metrics. Equivalent of 1 Dreb or 1 Ast is +0.1 Net Rtg, 1 Oreb is +0.25 NetRtg. 1 less TO is +1.5 Net Rtg. 1+rTS is +0.2* shot possessions. Low Turnovers are much more impactful.
Saying Jokic is MVP is like saying Cabrera is better than Mike Trout because all people wanna look at is the triple slash line.
Actual DARKO's formula is (current - last year)1.25 + Career DARKO.
It gets tiring seeing people compare this to Embiid's MVP in this sub when SGA is actually ahead in the statistics department.
P.S. Stop deleting my post mods. Don't let r/nba turn in to a Jokic propaganda sub.