Posts about NBA
Do you want someone to tell you what to think...but you don't know who you should listen to? Well why not listen to all of them by looking at the average of their opinions...and then you can pretend it's your own opinion!
Here I am taking the average ranking of every player from every article posted by a major media:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kgjEzsF0N5zK6yFJUJgN2NE-wp_z3KmszAvYDsj487s/edit#gid=0
This is still considered 'in progress' and I will continue to update as more lists come out. The idea is that this list should be better if it considers opinions of several 'experts' instead of just one.
Currently, the top 25 players are as follows:
Nikola Jokic
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Stephen Curry
Luka Doncic
Joel Embiid
Kevin Durant
Jayson Tatum
Devin Booker
Jimmy Butler
LeBron James
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Kawhi Leonard
Anthony Davis
Damian Lillard
Ja Morant
Jamal Murray
Donovan Mitchell
De'Aaron Fox
Paul George
Anthony Edwards
Jaylen Brown
Bam Adebayo
Trae Young
James Harden
Pascal Siakam
My google doc link has over a hundred players listed if you want to see the full list. The list also shows how close the average is for a player. For example, Jokic > Giannis > Curry > Luka > Embiid is a pretty clear ranking, but Kevin Durant and Jayson Tatum are super close in their ranking averages, and could easily change when the next list that comes out.
One fun thing to look at is the standard deviation of players (ie. how differently they are ranked). Here are 15 players nobody can agree exactly how highly they should be ranked.
Joel Embiid (Ranking Ranges from 3rd-9th)
Kawhi Leonard (8th-17th)
Jamal Murray (11th-26th)
Jaylen Brown (14th-32nd)
James Harden (19th-40th)
Zion Williamson (26th-51st)
Bradley Beal (20th-63rd)
Zach LaVine (26th-73.5)
LaMelo Ball (32nd-84th)
CJ McCollum (38th-86th)
Deandre Ayton (54th-UNRANKED on list of 111)
Austin Reaves (58th-109th)
Trey Murphy III (60th-120th)
Victor Wembanyama (58th-UNRANKED on list of 125)
Russell Westbrook (51st-UNRANKED on multiple lists of 100+)
