Thanks to Mister Research, we have come up with Al Bianchi’s PER (Player Efficiency Rating) numbers. The Analytics have gone backwards into history and assigned “modified” PER numbers to each player for each season going back to 1950-51. Modified, because back in the good old days, stats for turnovers and offensive rebounds did not exist and three-point shots did not exist, period. Assists only became a big deal when Bob Cousy was the league’s poster boy. My ten seasons in the league produced the following PERs – 9.6 … 9.6 … 9.5 … 9.6 ( a paragon of consistency!) … 8.8 (injured most of the 1960-61 season, played fewer than 700 minutes) … 11.4 …12.5 … 8.9 … 7.3 … (and) 7.1. The two best seasons, 1961-62 and 1962-63, were the team’s final two years under Alex Hannum and also the final two in Syracuse. Top PERs on the Nats in the first of those years were Hal Greer (17.5) and Red Kerr (17.4). Among the “rotation” players with 900 or minutes, only Joe Roberts had a lower PER than Bianchi. The next season, the final one in Syracuse, Kerr’s 18.6 PER topped the team, with Greer next at 17.3. And, albeit Bianchi’s 12.5 PER was his CAREER BEST, he had the LOWEST number of all SYRACUSE players with 1,000 or more minutes played that season. . In other words, the Analytics remain baffled when confronted with the mystery of how I stayed in the league for 10 years. Like I keep telling you, there are some things on which you can’t put a number!!