ESPN Ranking every NBA player: 1-500

3960HOOD · Post #1 » by **3960HOOD** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:25 pm

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/68655 ... gs-351-400
ESPN is having player rankings that will release 50 per day of new rankings. Right now they are at ranking 337.
Here are some notables so far.
#430 Jeremy Evans
#420 Jarron Collins
#402 Sundiata Gaines
#370 Francisco Elson
#348 Kosta Koufos
#340 Alec Burks

Xsy · Post #2 » by **Xsy** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:51 pm

Jeremy Evans is better than 430. How sad that he's so overlooked.

I mean, he's probably really high up there, but not that high.

Luigi · Post #3 » by **Luigi** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:50 pm

I'll bet this has a lot to do with minutes at a position. Something like good centers play 36 minutes, good guards play 40, or whatever they want to establish. Guys who don't get minutes probably get put at the bottom automatically.

Reckless · Post #4 » by **Reckless** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:40 am

how do you think they do these low rankings? by blindly throwing darts at players pictures

that's only way to explain how Evans is so low, what was his PER last year?

phrizzo · Post #5 » by **phrizzo** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:10 pm

one of the guys who voted on this said on twitter that down in the lower rankings it was all based on name recognition. soooo it's just a fun thing really.

Post #6 » by **StocktonShorts** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:00 pm

What a silly idea.

It's even sillier to take them so seriously and argue against where they rank a fringe bench player like Jeremy Evans.

3960HOOD · Post #7 » by **3960HOOD** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:00 pm

Here's an update.
#310 Kyrlo Fesenko.

babyjax13 · Post #8 » by **babyjax13** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:02 pm

Fes over Burks? And Evans? That's just stupid.

3960HOOD · Post #9 » by **3960HOOD** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:48 pm

babyjax13 wrote:Fes over Burks? And Evans? That's just stupid.

Apparently there is 190 more players that he is better than. :lol:

countrybama24 · Post #10 » by **countrybama24** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:00 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_xx_-1hG0g

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3960HOOD · Post #11 » by **3960HOOD** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:56 pm

Another update:
#298 Ronnie Price
#295 Earl Watson

3960HOOD · Post #12 » by **3960HOOD** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:33 pm

If anyones interested heres an update.

CJ Miles - 216
Gordon Hayward - 221
Enes Kanter - 253
Raja Bell - 265
Jimmer Fredette 273

BarneyGumble · Post #13 » by **BarneyGumble** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:03 pm

3960HOOD wrote:If anyones interested heres an update.

CJ Miles - 216
Gordon Hayward - 221
Enes Kanter - 253
Raja Bell - 265
Jimmer Fredette 273

Where do these guys come up with these rankings? Is this just someone's opinion who happens to work for ESPN? It is my opinion that Jimmer Fredette is definitely not lower than Raja Bell. I'm not sure anyone is lower than Raja Bell.....

3960HOOD · Post #14 » by **3960HOOD** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:00 pm

BarneyGumble wrote:
3960HOOD wrote:If anyones interested heres an update.

CJ Miles - 216
Gordon Hayward - 221
Enes Kanter - 253
Raja Bell - 265
Jimmer Fredette 273

Where do these guys come up with these rankings? Is this just someone's opinion who happens to work for ESPN? It is my opinion that Jimmer Fredette is definitely not lower than Raja Bell. I'm not sure anyone is lower than Raja Bell.....

How did we rank the players?

We asked 91 experts to rate each player on a 0-to-10 scale, in terms of "the current quality of each player."

Here is the full list of voters from ESPN.com, the TrueHoop Network, TrueHoop TV, Daily Dime Live, ESPN TV, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, espnW, ESPN The Magazine, ESPN Insider, ESPN Fantasy, ESPN Games, ESPN Dallas, ESPN Los Angeles, ESPN Chicago, ESPN New York, ESPN Stats & Information, ESPN Topics and ESPN Analytics.

To decide which players to rank, we started with every player who played in the league last season, and then eliminated players who had signed overseas contracts that made them ineligible for the 2011-12 NBA season. Then we added the 60 members of the 2011 draft class, eliminating those not likely to play in the NBA by 2012. That left 500 players, according to our best information as of August 15.