Hsiao's double-double lands her Player of the Week award

- April 11, 2026

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Yu-Wen Hsiao

Yu-Wen Hsiao

20-year old center Yu-Wen Hsiao (184-C-2005) had a very impressive game in the last round for league's best team Cathay Life Tigers and receives a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 25.
She had a double-double of 30 points and 15 rebounds, while her team outclassed Chunghua T. (#2, 12-13) with 30-point margin 98-68. The game was between two of the league's top four teams. It allowed Tigers to consolidate first place in the Taiwanese WSBL. Cathay Life has a very good season and are considered to have a run for the championship title. They improved their record to 23-2. It's Hsiao's second year at Tigers and it's hard to imagine this team without her. Hsiao has impressive league stats. She is in league's top in points (2nd best: 14.0ppg), assists (9th best: 2.4apg) and averages solid 1.4bpg and 54.1% FGP.

Second best performed player last round was Ajae Petty (190-F-2002) of Taiyuan Textile. She is American forward in her first season at Taiyuan T.. In the last game Petty recorded an impressive 28 points and 6 rebounds. It was enough for Taiyuan Textile to edge slightly lower-ranked Taipower (#4, 5-20) by 1 point 82-81. It was definitely game of the week between two contenders to the title. Taiyuan T. consolidated its place in top 3 of the standings. Her team is not often considered as one of the league's best with a mere 10-15 record. Petty is one of the most experienced players at Taiyuan T. and has a reputation of one of team's most reliable players.

Third place about best performers goes to guard Rui-Zhen Song (160-PG) of Taiwan Power (#4). Song got into 30-points club by scoring 32 points in the last round. She went also for five rebounds . Despite Song's great performance the Power lost 81-82 to #3 ranked Taiyuan T.. But her team cannot count on just a single shooter as she also needs help of the other teammates especially in such crucial game. Taipower can only dream about fighting for top spots in the league. They have extremely bad season and 5-20 record places them at the very bottom of the standings. Song has individually a great season in Taiwan. After 25 games, she made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 10.8ppg (6th best), rebounds with 4.9rpg (8th best) and assists with 3.0apg (4th best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Wei-Qing Liao (180-C) of Taiyuan T. - 19 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists
5. Ping Luo (168-PG-1996) of Cathay Life - 18 points
6. Ying-Jie Li (163-G-2001) of Taipower - 18 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists
7. Xun Han (174-G/F) of Taipower - 5 points and 5 rebounds
8. Pei-Xin Song (180-F-1998) of Taipower - 8 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists
9. I-Hsiu Cheng (178-SF-1993) of Cathay Life - 3 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists
10. Hsiang-Ting Huang (180-F/C-1993) of Chunghua T. - 11 points, 2 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)

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