Player of the Month – Korisliiga (men) – October 2024
First month of Men’s Korisliiga is over, as the next games are played in November.
So we have the difficult choice of looking at who gets the nod for the FIRST title of Player of the Month for Korisliiga (men) in 2024.
The criteria for the choice is that the player has to play in a team that has a WINNING percentage in the games played in the month, so as we are at 6 games per team, the win-loss ratio has to 4-2, teams with 3-3 unfortunately do not make it to the comparison.
Sometimes there are players who might play in ‘losing’ ratio team, that I might give a special mention to – but in general, the formula to calculate the Player of the Month is between players of winning teams.
This month we had TWO players who were competing for the Player of the Month – with very tight race all the way until the end with the points.
As I kept adding the points and taking away the reductions that make the ‘formula’ for counting the player, as well as looking at their appearances in the Team of the Week through out October, in the end it came down just to one name!
The players who were in contention were JEREMIAH WOOD of BISONS and KESHAWN CURRY of KATAJA BASKET.
And the teams that had a winning ratio were Kataja Basket, Helsinki Seagulls, KarhuBasket, Salon Vilpas and Bisons – but only Wood and Curry were the players whose stats were comparable in the winning teams.
The special mention has to go out to TOPIAS PALMI of TAMPEREEN PYRINTÖ – unfortunately his team were 2-4 for the month of October. IF Pyrintö would have been a ‘winning team’ in October, the stats that Palmi put up in the first month. Taking into account that he only played in FIVE games, where as WOOD and CURRY played SIX games each. Palmi gathered better points total by double digits over the eventual winner of the Player of the Month. I would expect Palmi to be the winner of the Official Player of the Month title from Korisliiga, when that gets announced at the end of the month!!
Our player of the Month for October had a solid month, with two double-doubles – and two ALMOST double-doubles. Contributing in scoring, rebounds, assists – as well as steals and blocks. This Korisliiga veteran is no stranger to different honours and looks to be in great shape, having made TWO appearances in the team of the week – only missing out by few points in the last week to make it three in a row.
THE PLAYER OF THE MONTH FOR MEN’s KORISLIIGA – OCTOBER 2024 :
JEREMIAH WOOD – BISONS
