Well, this and many other reasons, I’m sure.
Now… I must note that the following discussion does take place regarding a league in which Kirk Hinrich and Larry Hughes were (until recently) fighting for a starting SG spot while a superior talent (unfortuntely, Ben Gordon) didn’t even enter into the picture. That said…
Does Terry Porter [...]
If there is a worse spot to be in a 12-team draft this season than 8th overall, I do not want to know what that spot is. In the GMTR Mock Draft Dirk Nowitzki went at 8, but lucky for me, he was off the board in this draft. I say that somewhat sarcastically since [...]
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So what are player tiers? It’s the practice of grouping players of similar value into levels or tiers. The goal is to identify areas where there are large gaps in value between groups of players, so that there is a large drop off in value between the players in [...]
We’re coming to the home stretch of the GMTR positional tiers, which is good because half of the world’s drafts have already happened. The positional tiering system starts to break down at the center position thanks to Yahoo and their decision to give every player over 6-6 center eligibility. So they have so many more [...]
Read More..>>Here’s Patrick on why we do this:
So what are player tiers? It’s the practice of grouping players of similar value into levels or tiers. The goal is to identify areas where there are large gaps in value between groups of players, so that there is a large drop off in value between the players in [...]
Let’s hope we have as much fun with the shooting guard tiers as we did with the point guard tiers. As always, most of the information found in these posts is available on our Big Board, Player Tier Spreadsheet and Mock Draft.
Tier 1 – The First Rounders
1. Kobe Bryant (4)
2. Dwyane Wade (9)
No surprise [...]
Recently, I was lucky enough to participate in a mock draft set up by Jamaal Gilbert from FantasyBasketball.com. The draft pretty much consisted of various basketball bloggers as well as a few guys from FantasyBasketball.com. You’ll need to buy their 2008 fantasy draft guide to see the results of the mock, so while it wouldn’t [...]
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