Philippine Basketball Association Most Valuable Player award

The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) awards the Most Valuable Player award (MVP) at the end of the season. The winner is selected via votes from the press, players, coaches and top PBA officials.

Note that from 1975 to 2003, PBA seasons have three tournaments (or conferences), so the regular NBA application of having a regular season MVP and a Finals MVP and the meaning of "conference" doesn't apply here. The season MVP is for the whole season, including the regular season, the playoffs and the Finals of each Conference, although there is a Best Player of the Conference award for each conference, and a Best Import award for conferences where imports are allowed play.

Starting at 2004, instead of having a year long season (February to December, with a month's break in-between conferences), the season was reformatted so that there would be two conferences (tournaments) from October to June-July. Starting in the 2010-11 PBA season, the season will still be from October to July, but with three conferences.

The winner was selected by the following format:

• 30% cumulative statistical points (points, rebounds, assists, blocks, turnovers etc.)
• 30% press and media votes
• 30% players' votes
• 10% four-man committee (representatives from the PBA Photographer's Group, SCOOP, the TV coveror and the Philippine Sportswriters Association)

With controversies with the selections, a new format was created starting at the 2006-07 PBA season:

• 30% average statistical points
• 30% press and media votes
• 25% players' votes
• 10% TV coveror
• 5% Commissioner's Office^[1]

Statistical points (SP) are computed as follows:

• 1 SP for every point scored, rebound assist, steal and shot blocked.
• 10 bonus points for every game won where the player played up to the semifinals.
• 15 bonus points for every game won where the player played in the Finals
• Deduction of 1 SP for every turnover, 5 SP for every technical or flagrant foul without ejection, and 15 SP for any technical or flagrant foul that results in an ejection.

In addition, a Filipino player can only be eligible for awards if he played in at least 70% of his team's games.^[2]

MVP voting begins at the start of the Finals series of the last conference. All statisitical points gathered from all levels of competition (elimination/classification round and playoffs) are included.

Winners per season

Season	Player	Team	College
1975	Bogs Adornado	Crispa	UST
1976	Bogs Adornado	Crispa	UST
1977	Freddie Hubalde	Crispa	Mapúa
1978	Robert Jaworski	Toyota	UE
1979	Atoy Co	Crispa	Mapúa
1980	Philip Cezar	Crispa	JRC
1981	Bogs Adornado	U/Tex	UST
1982	Ramon Fernandez	Toyota	USC
1983	Abet Guidaben	Crispa	USJ-R
1984	Ramon Fernandez	Beer Hausen	USC
1985	Ricardo Brown	Great Taste	Pepperdine
1986	Ramon Fernandez	Tanduay	USC
1987	Abet Guidaben	San Miguel	USJ-R
1988	Ramon Fernandez	San Miguel and Purefoods	USC
1989	Benjie Paras	Shell	UP
1990	Allan Caidic	Presto	UE
1991	Alvin Patrimonio	Purefoods	Mapúa
1992	Ato Agustin	San Miguel	Lyceum
1993	Alvin Patrimonio	Purefoods	Mapúa
1994	Alvin Patrimonio	Purefoods	Mapúa
1995	Vergel Meneses	Sunkist	JRC
1996	Johnny Abarrientos	Alaska	FEU
1997	Alvin Patrimonio	Purefoods	Mapúa
1998	Kenneth Duremdes	Alaska	Adamson
1999	Benjie Paras	Shell	UP
2000	Danny Ildefonso	San Miguel	NU
2001	Danny Ildefonso	San Miguel	NU
2002	Willie Miller	Red Bull	Letran
2003	Asi Taulava	Talk ‘N Text	BYU-Hawaii
2004-05	Eric Menk	Barangay Ginebra	Lake Superior St.
2005-06	James Yap	Purefoods	UE
2006-07	Willie Miller	Alaska	Letran
2007-08	Kelly Williams	Sta. Lucia	Oakland
2008-09	Jayjay Helterbrand	Barangay Ginebra	Kentucky State
2009-10	James Yap	Purefoods/Derby Ace	UE
2010-11	Jimmy Alapag	Talk ‘N Text	CSU San Bernardino

Multiple time winners

Name	Total
Ramon Fernandez	4
Alvin Patrimonio	4
Bogs Adornado	3
Abet Guidaben	2
Benjie Paras	2
Danny Ildefonso	2
Willie Miller	2
James Yap	2

References

1. ^ PBA revises rules for voting Philippine Daily Inquirer
2. ^ DETERMINING THE BEST PLAYER OF THE CONFERENCE, PBA.ph