Liberty Ballers · Apr 8, 2018
Ben Simmons Pareto Watch
A recent article in 538 proposed the name “Pareto Game” for the situation where a player puts up a stat line that no one in NBA history has exceeded in each category. The name comes from the great Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who developed the concept of “Pareto optimality.” A distribution of goods is Pareto optimal if it is impossible to give one person more without giving someone else less. In a two-player, zero-sum game, all distributions are Pareto optimal, helping one person always hurts the other. But most economic situations are not zero-sum.
