I think it’s a pretty good metric for evaluating the best player(s) and their performance (stats) along with their team’s performance (wins). Personally, I would like to see a negative variable for TOs, but over the long run, most A:TO ratios are around 2:1 so unless you make the weight for TOs different from the weight for assists it’s a wash.
I wonder if the wins variable should be for conference wins instead of overall wins (esp. since this is a conference award). That would eliminate any bias because of more games.

Tex, I bet you are right. I think the first team is going to be guard heavy, while the second team will be 4/5 heavy. I see Plumlee, Larkin, Harris, Green & Curry making first team. CJL, Howell, Brown, Kadji & JMM on the second team. Because VPI is so terrible, it’s possible for Green to drop to the second team and open a slot for someone, but based on perceptions and history, it’s more likely JMM would get that spot over Howell or CJL (warranted or not).

Personally I can’t support a guy for POY on a team in the cellar of a mediocre conference. VPI has 4 conference wins and 13 total, that’s just a good player on a horrible team.
To me, POY is more about impact to the team’s performance/record and that’s why I have Larkin as POY (ignoring stats). Without Larkin I don’t know if Miami wins 10 conference games. Without Plumlee, Duke is still really solid, but their performance sans Kelly shows they are still really competitive without one of their stars (their losses are more a result of playing true road games as opposed to missing Kelly IMHO – Kelly probably makes the biggest difference @MD and @ UVA).
Without Green, where is VPI. In the grand scheme of things, his performance doesn’t translate to team success. Now, my view of POY may be different from the league’s intention. If the intention is to fill a stat sheet or if it’s just based on ppg then yeah, Plumlee or Green is the guy.

That's stuff Green has no control over though. He's saddled with easily the worst teammates of anyone in the conference. I'm gonna bust out some advanced metrics here, because it really emphasizes how unique Green's season has been.

There are two really useful stats for measuring offensive production, "usage rate" and "offensive rating". The first is a measure of what percentage of your teams' possessions you use while you're on the floor (obviously, the average is 20%). The latter is a measure of your efficiency, how many points you will produce for your team if you use 100 possessions (the average NCAA offense has about a 100 offensive rating). Typically, as your usage rate goes up, your offensive rating goes down (i.e. if you have to create more offense, it's tougher to do so efficiently). Obviously, a great offensive player will have a high usage rate and high offensive rating. A major-conference player who is an average offensive player would be expected to have something like a 20% USG and 104 ORtg.

So, all that said, what kind of support does Green have? Not a single player on Virginia Tech other than Green has a usage rate over 15% and an offensive rating over 100. Not one. For comparisons sake, App St. has 5 guys that fit that criteria. Green has no teammates who you would consider even average offensive players. Everyone rates from "below-average" to "abysmal". Despite that, Tech actually has a league-average offense, their offense is 7th in the ACC, and it's entirely due to Green. Every single game, opponents go in knowing all they have to do is stop Green, and he's still spectacular. It's not just that he scores a ton, it's that he scores efficiently, and he does it while all the focus of the defense is on him. The only players even in his neighborhood as far as offensive numbers go (31.6% USG, 121.3 ORtg) are Trey Burke, Doug McDermott, and Kelly Olynyk, and all of them have MUCH better teammates than Green.

[/rant] All that to say, Green is fantastic, and I don't ding him for have crappy teammates (especially since it actually makes what he's doing much harder). I have little doubt that if you surrounded Green with McDs AAs like Plumlee has, he'd win PoY going away.

Yeah, Larkin is so good he helps tip in game winning buckets for other teams.

HELLO and they should not unfortunately he is like Walter Johnson on the Washington Senators.

Yup, Green's going to be a HoF pitcher. Johnson got into the MLB HoF a year ahead of Cy Young. Shows what folks thought about Walt, way back when.

Thanks for the clarification, that does change my perception. Ordinarily I would agree, but IMO the "turnaround" consisted of him essentially changing out to a smaller lineup, something that fans (and some analysts) had been howling literally for weeks. I could make the alternate argument that his innate stubbornness cost UNC a few losses until he could admit what was already pretty clear. I give Roy his props when they're due, but not this year.

POY is certainly debatable this year, although I can't see anybody getting the nod over Plumlee. But COY? Pretty cut and dry to me. Have to agree with Stan on this one.

Larranaga should probably be national COY. The change he's brought to Miami is so drastic. The idea of Paige for ROY is flat-out ludicrous though. He's been pretty terrible by-and-large.

I'm liking you more and more Stan

There should be no question for ACC COY. Any writer that votes for anyone but Larranaga should have their credentials revoked.