Last week, over at Run the Floor (that links to the actual article), I looked at the nation’s leaders in a metric called value add.

I don’t think I can improve on my performance in explaining what value add measures, so I’ll quote myself here.

Earlier this year John Pudner launched a database called Value Add Basketball which tracks, on a team and individual basis, how valuable any given player is versus either a typical BCS-level replacement player or a replacement-level low-major player (depending on the player in question). Luke Winn explained it this way in 2011: “Value Add attempts to quantify the percentage drop-off if, say, Ohio State were to give all of Jared Sullinger’s possessions to a generic, ninth or 10th man on a Division I bench.”

Pudner relies on tempo-free data from Ken Pomeroy, especially usage rate and minutes statistics, and his work first appeared on Marquette’s Cracked Sidewalks blog. He explains in detail how he arrives at the value-add figures in a guest post from May on the Big Apple Buckets blog.

His website, which is fantastically sortable, searchable and comprehensive, has become a valuable resource.

So who are the current individual Horizon League leaders (as of Nov. 28)? Look no further! Notes follow the data.

HL Rank	Overall Rank	Player	Team	Off. Value	Def. Value	Value Add
1	95	McCallum, Ray	Detroit	5.5	0.4	6.61
2	105	Lee, Charlie	Cleveland St.	5.48	0.7	6.28
3	108	Broekhoff, Ryan	Valparaiso	4.8	-1.46	6.25
4	162	Averkamp, Ben	Loyola	5.08	-0.54	5.62
5	229	Talton, Gary	UIC	3.27	-0.7	4.97
6	246	Van Wijk, Kevin	Valparaiso	4.55	-0.29	4.84
7	290	Humes, Hayden	UIC	5.04	0.48	4.55
8	377	Perry, Kendrick	YSU	3.14	0.59	4.05
9	398	Anderson, Doug	Detroit	2.82	-0.65	3.96
10	461	Yoho, JT	Wright St.	4.87	1.34	3.53
11	489	Grady, Anton	Cleveland St.	0	-3.44	3.44
12	540	Eargle, Damian	YSU	1.09	-2.13	3.22
13	546	Minnerath, Nick	Detroit	3.14	-0.07	3.21
14	592	Aaron, Jordan	Milwaukee	2.02	0.48	3.04
15	604	Belin, Kamren	YSU	2.9	-0.1	2.99
16	611	Thomas, Christian	Loyola	3.02	0.58	2.95
17	616	Vest, Matt	Wright St.	2.12	-0.82	2.94
18	639	Kamczyc, Tim	Cleveland St.	3.9	1.06	2.84
19	658	Mason, Marlin	Cleveland St.	0.43	-2.33	2.76
20	759	Arians, Austin	Milwaukee	2.57	0.11	2.47
21	870	Fouse, Jordan	Green Bay	0.74	-1.42	2.16
22	919	Allen, Blake	YSU	3.39	2.36	2.03
23	976	Coleman, Jordan	Valparaiso	1.53	-0.38	1.91
24	1071	Niang, Thierno	Milwaukee	0	-1.7	1.7
25	1210	Young, Jerran	Wright St.	0	-1.45	1.45
26	1290	Cougill, Brennan	Green Bay	0.95	-0.38	1.32
27	1387	Brown, Alec	Green Bay	0	-1.17	1.17
28	1393	Haarsma, James	Milwaukee	0	-1.17	1.17
29	1403	Buggs, Erik	Valparaiso	0.68	0.52	1.16
30	1421	Williams, Tanner	Loyola	1.1	-0.02	1.12
31	1467	Darling, Cole	Wright St.	0.35	-0.72	1.06
32	1497	Cerroni, Kam	Green Bay	2.02	2.33	1.01
33	1504	Kelm, Kyle	Milwaukee	1.13	0.12	1.01
34	1539	Stigall, Chase	Butler	0	-0.46	0.96
35	1568	Harris, Demetrius	Milwaukee	0	-0.93	0.93
36	1589	Griffin, Kendall	Wright St.	1.8	1.52	0.9
37	1658	Kenney, Matt	Valparaiso	0.62	-0.2	0.82
38	1698	Hain, Bobby	YSU	0.95	0.17	0.78
39	1744	Simonton, Will	UIC	0.85	0.12	0.73
40	1753	Boutte, PJ	Detroit	0	-0.72	0.72
41	1810	Mays, Greg	Green Bay	1.15	0.48	0.67
42	1987	Howard, Juwan	Detroit	1	1.19	0.5
43	1992	Muhammad, Sultan	Green Bay	0.98	0.88	0.49
44	2024	Amiker, Shawn	YSU	0.91	1.07	0.46
45	2034	Lomomba, Junior	Cleveland St.	0.14	0.19	0.45
46	2063	Hicks, Jordan	Loyola	0.87	1.69	0.43
47	2100	Bruinsma, Evan	Detroit	0	-0.4	0.4
48	2268	Fernandez, Vashil	Valparaiso	0	-0.28	0.28
49	2299	Lippert, Jermaine	Detroit	0.5	0.29	0.25
50	2365	Sledge, Tavares	Wright St.	0	-0.2	0.2
51	2384	Sykes, Keifer	Green Bay	0.38	2.29	0.19
52	2431	Long, Devon	Cleveland St.	0.3	0.26	0.15
53	2484	Richard, Evan	Milwaukee	0.19	0.31	0.1
54	2504	Njoku, Ugochukwu	Detroit	0.01	-0.09	0.1
55	2512	Turk, Devon	Loyola	0.17	1.43	0.09
56	2549	Douglas, Sebastian	Cleveland St.	0.15	0.66	0.07
57	2558	Crisman, Joe	Loyola	0	0.94	0.06
58	2573	Boggs, Ben	Valparaiso	0.09	0.72	0.05
59	2619	Ndaye, Ludovic	Cleveland St.	0.04	0.09	0.02

I didn’t include any players who were still at 0.00 (because that would mean that they added no value).

To use this data conversationally you can say that, Kendrick Perry, for example adds 4.05 percent value over a replacement-level mid-major player (Pudner uses different constants for mid-major and high-major players).

J.T. Yoho (No. 10), Austin Arians (20), and Jordan Fouse (21) lead the freshman class, and Ray McCallum Jr. (No. 95 nationally) is the only Horizon League representative that has so far cracked the national top 100.