Dani Duarte claims Ecuadorian National League Hoops Agents weekly honour

James Edmond

Experienced Dani Duarte (1984) had a great game in the last round for Nesfebanor and that's him to receive a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 4.
The 38-year old had a double-double of 19 points and sixteen rebounds, while his team crushed, the league's bottom-ranked team Guerreros (#8, 0-3) with 17-point margin 86-69. Nesfebanor is placed at 7th position in Ecuadorian National League. The season is still in it's early stage, so the team may have a chance to improve their current position in the standings. They lost 4 games and had just one victory. Duarte has many years of experience at Nesfebanor, through which he has constantly improved. Duarte has impressive league stats. He is in league's top in points (7th best: 19.0ppg), rebounds (5th best: 11.4rpg) and averages solid 3.6spg and 64.8% FGP.

The second most remarkable performance in last round's games was young American power forward James Edmond Jr. (205-PF-1991) of Club Valle. Edmond Jr. impressed basketball fans with a double-double of 21 points and 16 rebounds. Of course Club Valle cruised to a 81-70 relatively comfortable win over the higher-ranked Triple E-Uda (#3, 3-2). Club Valle's 6th position in the standings has not changed. His team is not often considered as one of the league's best with a mere 1-2 record. Edmond Jr. is one of the most experienced players at Club Valle and has a reputation of one of team's most reliable players. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 19.0ppg (#6). He also registered 12.3 boards per game.

The third best performed player last round was another Nesfebanor's star - Yolvis Granado. Granado scored 14 points and grabbed twenty rebounds (!!!). He was another key player of Nesfebanor, helping his team with a 86-69 easy win against Guerreros (#8, 0-3). Granado has individually a great season in Ecuador. After only 5 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in rebounds with 10.2rpg (7th best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Malik Jenkins (201-F-1989) of Triple E-Uda - 19 points and 15 rebounds
5. Emilio Cappare (199-F/G-1990) of Santa Maria - 25 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists
6. Manuel Hurtado (198-PF-1990) of Santa Maria - 18 points and 10 rebounds
7. Jonathan Guzman (201-F-1998) of Santa Maria - 9 points, 14 rebounds and 7 assists
8. Yassel Farres) of Fuerza M. - 26 points and 5 rebounds
9. Michael Almeida (1994) of Guerreros - 11 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists
10. Geovanny Filian (F-2004) of Nesfebanor - 13 points, 7 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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