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18-year old forward Romario Holloway (203-F-2005) had a very impressive game in the last round for Basketball Loewen Braunschweig and receives a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 10.
He had a double-double of 30 points and 10 rebounds, while his team outclassed Rostock (#4, 4-6) with 31-point margin 103-72. Braunschweig maintains the 3rd position in their group in the German league. They would have been even better if they hadn’t lost a few games earlier this season. Braunschweig will need more victories to improve their 6-4 record. Holloway turned to be Braunschweig‘s top player in his first season with the team. Holloway has impressive league stats. He is in league’s top in rebounds (5th best: 10.9rpg) and averages solid 1.8bpg,2.3spg and 71.0% FGP.

Second best performed player last round was Nikola Tomic (195-PG-2005). He is a guard in his first season at Braunschweig. In the last game Tomic recorded an impressive 36 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists. Of course together with Holloway he helped Junior Loewen Braunschweig U19 team with another comfortable win outscoring slightly lower-ranked Rostock (#4, 4-6) 103-72. It was definitely game of the week between two contenders to the top position in Northeast-B. Braunschweig consolidated its place in top 3 of the standings. His team’s 6-4 record is not bad at all. Tomic is a newcomer at Braunschweig and quickly became one of team’s most reliable players. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 33.7ppg (#1). His other stats are also decent: 10.9rpg and 4.4apg.

Third place about best performers goes to forward Viktor Ludviksson (202-F-2006, agency: Blacktop Management) of WWU Baskets Muenster 2nd team (#4). Ludviksson got into 30-points club by scoring 33 points in the last round. He went also for nine rebounds and six assists. He was a key player of Muenster 2, leading his team to a 103-90 easy win against #1 ranked Quakenbrueck. Muenster 2 needs these victories very badly if they think about getting closer to top teams in North. Their record at this point is 5 victories and 4 lost games. Ludviksson has a very solid season. In 7 games in Germany he scored 17.7ppg. He also has 8.4rpg, 1.1bpg and a FGP of 60.0%.

Other top performing players last week:
4. Musa Abra (179-PG-2006) of Loewen – 25 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists
5. Ben Diederichs (205-SF-2005) of Sudhessen – 27 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists
6. Desmond Yiamu (198-PF-2006) of Bayern – 21 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists
7. Dyami Janeck (185-PG-2005) of Bonn/Rh. – 19 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists
8. Marko Josipovic (199-F-2005) of Kirchheim – 20 points, 12 rebounds and 3 assists
9. Thore Dilschmann (186-G-2006) of Muenster – 26 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists
10. Sebastian Schwachhofer (200-PF-2005) of Ludwigsburg – 17 points, 7 rebounds and 4 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)