Simo Atanackovic gets MVP of the Week award for Slovenian 2SKL

Experienced Naturalized Bosnia and Herzegovina Simo Atanackovic (207-F-1990) had an amazing evening in the last round for league's leader Terme Olimia Podcetrtek and that's him to receive a Hoops Agents 2SKL Player of the Week award for round 6.
The 36-year old forward had a double-double of 41 points and 12 rebounds, while his team beat Portoroz (#12, 0-6), the league's bottom-ranked team 79-67. It allowed Terme Olimia to jump to the first place in the Slovenian 2SKL. They maintain a perfect record without any lost game in the league. The season is still on an early stage, but Terme Olimia already had a very good start winning all 5 without losing a single one. In the team's last game Atanackovic had a remarkable 81.8% from 2-point range and got four three-pointers out of 8 attempts. He has many years of experience at Terme Olimia, through which he has constantly improved. Atanackovic has impressive league stats. He is league's best scorer averaging so far 25.8ppg. Atanackovic is in league's top in rebounds (3rd best: 8.6rpg) and averages solid 71.1% FGP.

The second most remarkable performance in last round's games was young guard Jan Rizman (196-G-1994) of Luxuris Celje. Rizman impressed basketball fans with 33 points, 3 rebounds and 8 assists. Of course he led Celje to another comfortable win 96-77 over the lower-ranked Jezica (#9, 2-4) being unquestionably team leader. This victory allowed Celje to move up to 6th position in the standings. His team lost some distance to top teams. But a 4-2 record is not bad and everything may still change. Rizman is one of the most experienced players at Celje 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 recorded 7.8 assists per game.

The third best performed player last round was Martin Drenik (199-C-2001) of Voga Grosuplje (#8). Drenik scored 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. He was a key player of Grosuplje, leading his team to a 79-70 win against slightly lower-ranked Konjice (#10, 1-5). The chances of Grosuplje not to end season at such low position in the league, however are less than slim as they have already lost 4 games, recording just two victories. With bigger assistance of his teammates, Drenik could try to bring Grosuplje's a little bit higher in the standings. Drenik has individually a great season in Slovenia. After only 6 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 17.3ppg (8th best) and rebounds with 7.7rpg (7th best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Vid Tamse (2003) of Slovan - 15 points, 11 rebounds and 2 assists
5. Matjaz Korez (202-F-2000) of Konjice - 23 points and 9 rebounds
6. Mitja Nikolic (200-F-1991) of Ajdovscina - 24 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists
7. Rok Popovic (202-F-2005) of Jezica - 14 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists
8. Maks Sever (187-G-2006) of Slovan - 12 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists
9. Vid Pregl (197-F-2006) of Branik - 15 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists
10. Blaz Rupnik (1996) of Hidria - 23 points and 7 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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