New Rankings

I see the new player rankings have been uploaded onto the site.  Do you guys happen to have them in a spreadsheet?   Thanks

Attached!

You're a scholar and a gentleman.  Don't ever change.

Thanks.

So you can see that we made some modifications after the Mock Draft was over, mostly surrounding rookies.

Our overriding philosophy there was that since rookies have no real projectability, not to mention a strong tendency to underperform expectations, they should at no point be the top ranked player available in a draft.  Whoever wants Oden or Durant or any of them, should conciously be making the decision to reach for him, because they believe in that rookie. 

No one should be staring at a list going "well i better take Corey Brewer because he's the highest ranked". 

Yi Jianlin took the biggest hit dropping from 81 or so to 161 (6th to 11th).

The other modifications revolved mostly around players that were deemed high throughout the draft process - Chris Webber (unsigned and gimpy), Ruben Patterson (unsigned and a track record that suggests last year was a fluke season) etc.  And players that are not going to play next season - Shaun Livingston, Marc Gasol.

Lastly - per JCPeery's suggestion - we tried to fill out rankings for a large portion of active players so that they would show up on the default ranking list. 

We followed up those drafted in the Mock, with players that were previosly ranked in the top 256 but fell out of the Mock (in the order they were previously ranked). 

Then we sorted by descending APS (average points the player would have contributed as a starter last season) for all players with an APS over 20.  

Then we put in all the rookies who went undrafted in the Mock. 

Then we sorted by descending APS for all undrafted players with APS of 20 or below.

The we included every draft eligible player under 25 by ascending age (youngest ranked highest).

That left us with the 561 ranked players in the sheet.