Facundo Sanz claims Bolivian Libobasquet weekly honour

Facundo Sanz

Argentinian Facundo Sanz (197-F-1996, agency: BIG) had a very impressive game in the last round for Saracho and that's him to receive a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 5.
The 25-year old forward had a double-double of 24 points and fifteen rebounds, while his team edged out Univ.Sucre (#8, 0-3), the league's bottom-ranked team 84-83. Saracho is placed at 4th position in Bolivian Libobasquet. Saracho is a typical solid league team placed somewhere in the middle or a little bit lower in the standings. They need more victories to improve their 2-2 record. In the team's last game Sanz had a remarkable 76.9% from 2-point range. He just recently signed at Saracho, being already a very valuable addition to the team. Sanz has impressive league stats. He is in league's top in points (3rd best: 23.8ppg), rebounds (4th best: 11.0rpg), assists (6th best: 3.8apg) and averages solid 1.3bpg,76.7% FGP and 54.5% from behind 3-point line.

The second most remarkable performance in last round's games was Argentinian Francisco Bonja of UNITEP. Bonja impressed basketball fans with a double-double of 23 points and 13 rebounds. Bad luck as UNITEP lost that game 50-86 to league's leader Leones (#1, 5-0). UNITEP is still second from the bottom in the standings. 4 lost games are too many comparing to just one victory UNITEP managed to get this year. Bonja is one of the most experienced players at UNITEP and has a reputation of one of team's most reliable players. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 22.5ppg (#4). He also registered 15.3 boards per game.

The third best performed player last round was Andres Trujillo (1999) of second-ranked San Simon. Trujillo scored 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds. He was a key player of San Simon, leading his team to a 80-79 win against the lower-ranked Atomico (#5, 2-3). San Simon started extremely well this year. They recorded 5 victories without losing a single game. Trujillo turns to be one of the very best players in the league while he is also a leader of the top team having his eyes on the championship title. Trujillo has a great season in Bolivia. After only 5 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 18.6ppg (9th best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Akil McClain (188-G-1997) of San Simon - 31 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists
5. Norberto Stucky (198-F-1994) of Leones - 11 points, 14 rebounds and 5 assists
6. Rodrigo Acuna (198-PF-1995) of Atomico - 22 points and 9 rebounds
7. Ronald Arze (175-PG-1993) of Leones - 16 points, 3 rebounds and 8 assists
8. Ronald Farmer-Blanchard (208-C-1991) of Tenis - 17 points and 13 rebounds
9. Juan Morales (183-PG-1994) of Atomico - 18 points and 4 rebounds
10. Kieston Standfield (201-F-1993) of San Simon - 18 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists

The Player of the week is selected based on efficiency calculation, but also including game result, importance of the game, if played recorded double-double/triple-double, etc.
The efficiency formula is a combination of various formulas used by different basketball organizations/leagues. We got involved many basketball scouts and journalists to assure it's accuracy.
The formula: 1.5*PTS + 3* (REB+AST+ST+BL-TO) - 2*BSAG - 4*PF + 3*PFRV + 4* (2FGPM+3FGPM) + 1.5*FTM - 3* (2FGPA-2FGPM) - 3* (3FGPA-3FGPM) - (FTA-FTM)

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