Calculators project Chris Paul as 2010 MVP

Basketball-Reference released their Win Shares-based projections on Monday, and after blacking out from trying to comprehend all the numbers, the calculators see Hornets point guard Chris Paul(notes) as a favorite for the MVP award.What's Win Shares? Good question. I have no idea because, unfortunately, I was dropped on my head repeatedly as a small child. (Note: This may or may not be true — Mom isn't talking — but I'm not good at math. Like seafood, I just can't trust it.)RealGM explains the Win Shares calculation as an "attempt to predict how many individual wins each NBA player will be almost single-handedly responsible for this coming season."In more detail, Andre' Snellings at NBA.com compares a Win Share to baseball's VORP stat: "It relies on the assumption that efficiency is the key to wins, looks at a player's offensive efficiency compared to the league average, a player's defensive efficiency compared to the league...