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ESPN Player Rankings
« on: September 23, 2015, 07:39:40 PM »

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http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13710146/nba-nbarank-players-ranked-nos-301-400

Hunter 324
Young 367
Rozier 375

Mickey missed the top 400

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« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2015, 07:42:06 PM »

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http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13710146/nba-nbarank-players-ranked-nos-301-400

Hunter 324
Young 367
Rozier 375

Mickey missed the top 400
Triboy will be crying in his beer over this news ;)

I do find it weird that Hunter is regarded that much higher than Rozier

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« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2015, 08:15:05 PM »

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I do find it weird that Hunter is regarded that much higher than Rozier

I was going to say that at that level they probably aren't far apart in their "score", since it doesn't take much of a difference to drop a few dozen spots.

But I guess they're actually rated a bit less than 4 points apart out of 100, which is more substantial than I expected.  Guess the voters liked what they saw from Hunter in Summer League.

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« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2015, 09:02:30 PM »

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RJ did impress in Summer league.

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« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2015, 10:57:04 PM »

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I do find it weird that Hunter is regarded that much higher than Rozier

I was going to say that at that level they probably aren't far apart in their "score", since it doesn't take much of a difference to drop a few dozen spots.

But I guess they're actually rated a bit less than 4 points apart out of 100, which is more substantial than I expected.  Guess the voters liked what they saw from Hunter in Summer League.
I may have missed something but I thought Hunter and Rozier were about equal (for that matter, Mickey on about the same level as them) and Young didn't look so hot. 

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« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2015, 12:27:34 PM »

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If this was NBA 2k16 rankings it would be more creditable  ;D

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« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2015, 01:05:54 PM »

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http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13710146/nba-nbarank-players-ranked-nos-301-400

Hunter 324
Young 367
Rozier 375

Mickey missed the top 400

Don't forget Perry Jones III at 349!

Former C's Dwight Powell (363) and Phil Pressey (365) making appearances too, along with Big Baby (343) and Tayshaun Prince (368).

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« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2015, 01:32:02 PM »

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Interesting... The mavs have the most players ranked 300 or worse at 7. Rockets have 0 players ranked 300 or worse.

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« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2015, 01:33:04 PM »

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I wonder why RJ and Booker are so low, under RHJ actually. It's funny how the two best shooters are side by side in the rankings

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« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2015, 01:55:40 PM »

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I'm pretty sure the ESPN rankings below the top 200 or so are made with a dartboard.
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« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2015, 02:04:32 PM »

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I'm pretty sure the ESPN rankings below the top 200 or so are made with a dartboard.

Yeah, let's not fool ourselves into thinking it's particularly important to accurately rank someone as the 351st best player in the NBA versus the 376th.

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« Reply #11 on: September 24, 2015, 02:14:16 PM »

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I'm pretty sure the ESPN rankings below the top 200 or so are made with a dartboard.

Yeah, let's not fool ourselves into thinking it's particularly important to accurately rank someone as the 351st best player in the NBA versus the 376th.
apparently with our collection of below-300 players, it is important ;)

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« Reply #12 on: September 24, 2015, 02:23:56 PM »

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I'm pretty sure the ESPN rankings below the top 200 or so are made with a dartboard.

  So Hollinger was involved?

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« Reply #13 on: September 24, 2015, 02:51:54 PM »

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I'm pretty sure the ESPN rankings below the top 200 or so are made with a dartboard.

Yeah, let's not fool ourselves into thinking it's particularly important to accurately rank someone as the 351st best player in the NBA versus the 376th.

Well, they're taking a (crappy, subjective) interval scale and converting it to rank ordering.  You're always going to get weirder results toward the bottom where players are all bunched together.

The whole thing's just an exercise to get pageviews and start people talking about the upcoming season anyway.  Might as well take it for what it's worth (a little as a conversation starter, basically nothing objectively) and have fun with it.

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« Reply #14 on: September 24, 2015, 03:00:09 PM »

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I'm pretty sure the ESPN rankings below the top 200 or so are made with a dartboard.

Yeah, let's not fool ourselves into thinking it's particularly important to accurately rank someone as the 351st best player in the NBA versus the 376th.
apparently with our collection of below-300 players, it is important ;)
Beats me how you can judge these guys who haven't played a minute of NBA basketball. Dart board might not be a bad way to go about it.
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