Three notes: I only scouted and projected players who played NCAA D1 Basketball in the 2019-2020 season. The top of this draft has many players who did not play NCAA Basketball. They are omitted only because I did not scout them, and I have no opinion on them. Major conference prospects in bold, mid-major prospects…
Introduction to the 2019 Big Board Four notes: I only scouted and projected players who played at least one season in college. I have no opinion on Doumbouya, Bitadze, Samanic, Bazley, and other players who did not play in college. Major conference prospects in bold, mid-major prospects in italics, low major prospects in plain text….
As you can tell from the lone article preceding this, I have not spent as much time with this draft as previous drafts. Part of that is due to my general disenchantment with NBA Draft analysis. But perhaps a bigger part of it is that, in no uncertain terms, this draft is bad. That doesn’t…
Going to keep the introduction as brief as possible here. I suggest you read all the articles leading up to this: Reference Series: Age Reference Series: Defense Reference Series: The Eye Test Making a big board is hard Lessons from other leagues Players are classified in the following positions: -Primary: typical point guard role –…
(This article initially appeared at DeepishThoughts and is reproduced here for completeness only.) IT’S TIME FOR THE 2016 BIG BOARD!! GET HYPED!! I lied. Before I get to the Big Board, I’m going to include here a whole bunch of stuff that I’ve written over the course of this draft series and some other information…
That’s right, it’s the DuckyNinja Big Board! You will disagree with most of these rankings! All I can do is explain them to the best of my ability. Remember, it’s basically impossible to project these guys anyway, so declaring with any kind of certainty where a player should be ranked is a fool’s exercise. These…
Last week I posted my draft projection system. This week brings the current version of my big board. I am still making small changes every day. You will disagree with the placement of many players. This draft has a lot of players with a lot of varying opinions. This draft also has a lot of…