Gimenez's double-double lands him Player of the Week award

Nicolas Gimenez

28-year old power forward Nicolas Gimenez (203-F/C-1994) had a great game in the last round for Saracho and receives a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 9.
He had a double-double of 32 points and 11 rebounds, while his team edged out Leones (#2, 6-1) 94-92. Saracho maintains the 6th position in Bolivian league. 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 4-4 record. Gimenez has many years of experience at Saracho, through which he has constantly improved. Gimenez has impressive league stats. He is in league's top in points (7th best: 20.6ppg) and averages solid 55.2% FGP and 46.8% from behind 3-point line.

Second best performed player last round was Facundo Sanz (197-F-1996, agency: BIG). He is Argentinian forward in his first season at Saracho. In the last game Sanz recorded impressive double-double of 27 points and 20 rebounds. It was enough for Saracho to edge the higher-ranked Leones (#2, 6-1) by 2 points 94-92. Saracho's 6th position in the standings has not changed. His team lost some distance to top teams. But 4-4 record is not bad and everything may still change. Sanz is one of the most experienced players at Saracho and similarly like Nicolas Gimenez has a reputation of one of team's most reliable players. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 21.6ppg (#6). His other stats are also decent: 11.8rpg and 4.8apg.

Third place about best performers goes to forward Joaquin Gamazo (198-PF-1991) of La Salle (#5). Gamazo got into 30-points club by scoring 32 points in the last round. He went also for five rebounds and four assists. He was a key player of La Salle, leading his team to a 79-74 win against the lower-ranked Univ.Sucre (#8, 1-6). La Salle needs these victories very badly if they think about getting closer to top teams. Their record at this point is 4 victories and 3 lost games. Gamazo has a great season in Bolivia. After only 7 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 28.0ppg (best scorer), rebounds with 15.3rpg (#1 in league) and assists with 2.7apg (9th best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Ronald Arze (175-PG-1993) of Leones - 24 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists
5. Rodrigo Acuna (198-PF-1995) of Atomico - 27 points and 9 rebounds
6. Thomas Cooper (196-G-1992) of Leones - 29 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists
7. Patrick Vieira (186-PG-1993) of Pichincha - 23 points, 11 rebounds and 2 assists
8. Ronald Farmer-Blanchard (208-C-1991) of Tenis - 20 points and 13 rebounds
9. Diego Santana) of Pichincha - 14 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists
10. Juan Morales (183-PG-1994) of Atomico - 19 points, 4 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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