On a night when Oscar Robertson was among the former Garden stars honored in a halftime ceremony, it was Kennedy's all-around contributions that mattered most.
Gennaro, the author of "Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball," noted that by one statistical measure, Wins Above Replacement, Seattle Mariners center fielder Franklin Gutierrez makes a greater all-around contribution than St . LouisCardinals left fielder Matt Holliday.
Watch him for a few games, and it is obvious Trout holds a wide lead in Wins Above Replacement, the numerical measure of a player's all-around contribution to his team.
According to Win Shares (WS), a metric designed to measure a player's all-around contribution to team wins, the 2011 finals feature 1,213 combined career regular-season Win Shares by players who have never won an N.B.A. title, an N.B.A. finals record.
Though Raisman is a legendary independent talent — with laurels that include Olympic individual-event medals of every color, as well as a silver in the Rio Games' all-around competition — her greatest contribution to American gymnastics may be a steadfast style of leadership that makes her an apt icon for the current reckoning.
There were contributions all around, the kind that define a winning team.
At the end of the day, it's whatever helps you fill their shoes, whatever helps you deliver real life and so, yes, there is a contribution all around from everybody.
That said, the specific rules around contributions aren't likely to go much deeper than what already exists.
The city requires that donor cards be submitted with most campaign contributions to protect against "straw donors" — or the use of fake names to get around contribution limits.
The effect is a legal end-run around contribution limits, allowing wealthy donors to give far more than $5,400 to help Mrs. Clinton where she needs it the most.
In recent years, special interests have done an end run around contribution and spending rules by running ads in the days leading up to an election that purport to be about an issue but are actually campaign ads intended to help one candidate win.
