It's NBA Draft time. Which means we get to see the group think effect in full force. So many mock drafts just with so little variance. This blog post will attempt to provide something objective you can use to compare with the group think. In the future I'd like to develop some systematic rankings that are smart about comparing international stats with college stats, and are able to consider multiple years of college stats, and adjust for injuries. Unfortunately, I have not yet done that, so my rankings will be focused on NCAA D1 players only, and will be based only on last year's stats. Using individual player data from https://basketball.realgm.com/ , team total statistics from https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/seasons/2019-school-stats.html , and game data from https://kenpom.com/cbbga19.txt I've built a player ranking system. An offensive simple box score (rawOSBS) value rating is calculated by taking Points Scored adjusted by the...
