Wood's 14 points and 8 rebounds give him Player of the Week award

37-year old Jeremiah Wood (200-C/F-1985, agency: Inception Sports) had an amazing evening in the last round for league's best team San Jose and receives a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 11.
He had the game-high 14 points adding eight rebounds and three assists for San Jose in his team's victory, helping them to outclass, the league's bottom-ranked team Tigrillos (#3, 0-1) with 62-point margin 124-62. Wood turned to be San Jose's top player in his first season with the team. Jeremiah Wood averages just after two games 14.0ppg and 5.5rpg.

Second best performed player last round was Tyrone Curnell (203-F/C-1988) of league's second-best Sao Paulo. He is American forward in his 2nd season at Sao Paulo. In the last game Curnell recorded impressive 24 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists. It was enough for Sao Paulo to edge UniFacisa (#4, 0-1) by 4 points 65-61. Curnell is well-known at Sao Paulo and he already established his position as one of the team's leaders. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 23.0ppg (#3). His other stats are also decent: 5.5rpg and 5.0apg.

Third place about best performers goes to another San Jose's star - forward Franco Benitez (199-F-1994). Benitez scored 15 points and grabbed seven rebounds. He was another key player of San Jose, helping his team with a 124-62 easy win against Tigrillos. Benitez also has a very good start of the season with very strong stats. Benitez has a very solid season. In 2 games in Liga SudAmericana he scored 15.5ppg.

Other top performing players last week:
4. Juan Pablo Corbalan (185-PG-1998) of San Jose - 11 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists
5. Andre Bresolin (195-SG-1987) of UniFacisa - 15 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists
6. Fernando Dose (200-F-1994) of San Jose - 13 points and 4 rebounds
7. Sebastian Picton (197-F-1992) of San Jose - 14 points and 6 rebounds
8. Vincenzo Ochipinti (191-G/F-1999) of San Jose - 11 points and 5 rebounds
9. Elinho Corazza (191-PG-1989) of Sao Paulo - 5 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists
10. Patricio Pinero (195-SF-1995) of Tigrillos - 25 points and 5 rebounds

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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