3rdside
Hall of Famer
Apologies for the delay on this - I got a ban on the p&R board (and rightly so - if i offended anyone there apologies for that also, I'm fairly sure I have no promising future in political diplomacy...) which carried over to this board with the change of format.
Onto the task at hand:
I have to say I was misguided with my initial outline of how this would work so, having put some more thought into it, and taken on board others' comments (again):
1. It needs to be simplified.
2. It needs to be more Suns focussed.
3. The ranking of players against each other is not necessary: Even though we’ll see results quicker, we could easily end up with GIGO (garbage in garbage out) e.g. in ‘Group 3 – High Lottery PF’s’; if both Bender and Chriss bust but one is marginally better, does anyone who picks one over the other really deserve points? Probably not.
4. Managing the recording / scoring of all players within a draft is not too difficult if we adopt a points system for every player as suggested. Think excel spreadsheet with all 60 players in the DraftExpress mock down one column and a points column next to that with a ranking for each player out of 7 (in line with Ouchie’s ratings - 7 for regular all-nba through to 1 for bust).
For the ‘Busts’ group; point scoring - at first thought - will be the same ranking scale but back to front i.e. a ‘7’ rated player earns you 1 point if you chose him as a bust, 6 becomes 2, 5 – 3 etc.
Obviously in the first few years scoring for most players will be low as they’ll be measured up against existing NBA players meaning trends might not emerge for a while, but maybe not.
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So bearing that in mind – and bearing with me (nothing worthwhile was ever done perfectly first time
) - the revised approach to the NBA Draft Power Rankings is as follows:
Onto the task at hand:
I have to say I was misguided with my initial outline of how this would work so, having put some more thought into it, and taken on board others' comments (again):
1. It needs to be simplified.
2. It needs to be more Suns focussed.
3. The ranking of players against each other is not necessary: Even though we’ll see results quicker, we could easily end up with GIGO (garbage in garbage out) e.g. in ‘Group 3 – High Lottery PF’s’; if both Bender and Chriss bust but one is marginally better, does anyone who picks one over the other really deserve points? Probably not.
4. Managing the recording / scoring of all players within a draft is not too difficult if we adopt a points system for every player as suggested. Think excel spreadsheet with all 60 players in the DraftExpress mock down one column and a points column next to that with a ranking for each player out of 7 (in line with Ouchie’s ratings - 7 for regular all-nba through to 1 for bust).
For the ‘Busts’ group; point scoring - at first thought - will be the same ranking scale but back to front i.e. a ‘7’ rated player earns you 1 point if you chose him as a bust, 6 becomes 2, 5 – 3 etc.
Obviously in the first few years scoring for most players will be low as they’ll be measured up against existing NBA players meaning trends might not emerge for a while, but maybe not.
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So bearing that in mind – and bearing with me (nothing worthwhile was ever done perfectly first time
) - the revised approach to the NBA Draft Power Rankings is as follows:
