“All-in-one stats, although a starting point for discussion and investigation, also have severe drawbacks.”

Nick Sciria, Contributor to BBall Breakdown, The Nylon Calculus

A superteam needs… a current top 5 player in the game along with two other current top 20-25 players alongside of them.

For this exercise, I elected not to focus as much on age but more so on the current production levels of the players. If a player was still one of the best players in the league in terms of impact (top 20 in VORP) then I didn’t feel the need to exclude them because they may have been a bit past their prime. All-in-one stats, although a starting point for discussion and investigation, also have severe drawbacks. For one, they don’t do a great job of taking into account defense (a calling card for a lot of possible superteams like the 2008 Celtics, LeBron’s Heat teams and the current Warriors). Of course, because we are trying to define all of the superteams in history, we are unable to use some of the more advanced measures we now have at our disposal.