Hollinger: Evaluating Collegians in the Draft

[LPKingsFan]

ESPN is posting a free insider story by John Hollinger featuring a new statistical analysis for college players. Now I know, not everyone is a Hollinger fan, but his numbers match up interestingly.

I'd post the story, but he uses charts and the format gets all funny. The link is here.

 

[jimbodan]

Interesting article, I thought it was kinda of funny that both Douby and Martin rated high on that list, maybe Petrie has some sort of similar formula he follows? According to him 2 of this years best prospects are Thad Young and Brandon Wright, Too bad we never bothered to work them out

 

[uolj]

Here's his numbers for this year's collegians:

[b]2007 Draft: Top 30 rated collegians, plus other notables[/b]

NO. 	PLAYER 			SCHOOL	 	SCORE 	CHAD FORD'S RANKING
1. 	Kevin Durant	 	Texas 		870.7 	2
2. 	Greg Oden 		Ohio State 	667.9 	1
3. 	Mike Conley Jr. 	Ohio State 	637.9 	7
4. 	Thaddeus Young 		Georgia Tech 	604.2 	14
5. 	Brandan Wright 		North Carolina 	601.4 	8
6. 	Al Horford 		Florida 	601.0 	3
7. 	Nick Fazekas 		Nevada 		594.3 	35
8. 	Josh McRoberts	 	Duke 		566.7 	26
9. 	Rodney Stuckey 		E. Washington 	557.7 	16
10. 	Jared Dudley 		Boston College 	542.6 	31
11. 	Joakim Noah 		Florida 	528.6 	9
12. 	Glen Davis 		LSU 		521.0 	25
13. 	Sean Williams	 	Boston College 	511.3 	20
14. 	Jeff Green 		Georgetown 	505.5 	6
15. 	Kyle Visser 		Wake Forest 	503.5 	57
16. 	Herbert Hill 		Providence 	503.0 	49
17. 	Javaris Crittenton 	Georgia Tech 	492.2 	18
18. 	Wilson Chandler 	DePaul 		483.1 	30
19. 	Julian Wright 		Kansas 		481.4 	11
20. 	Daequan Cook 		Ohio State 	470.0 	27
21. 	D.J. Strawberry 	Maryland 	465.5 	52
22. 	Jason Smith 		Colorado State 	464.9 	17
23. 	Alando Tucker 		Wisconsin 	464.3 	41
24. 	Corey Brewer 		Florida 	462.4 	5
25. 	Al Thornton 		Florida State 	447.8 	10
26. 	Marcus Williams 	Arizona 	445.8 	33
27. 	Acie Law 		Texas A&M 	445.2 	15
28. 	Aaron Gray 		Pittsburgh 	440.5 	38
29. 	Zabian Dowdell 		Virginia Tech 	438.2 	34
30. 	Spencer Hawes 		Washington 	433.9 	12

[b]	Other notables[/b]
	Morris Almond 		Rice 		425.6 	22
	Derrick Byars 		Vanderbilt 	421.9 	28
	Gabe Pruitt 		USC 		421.0 	21
	Nick Young 		USC 		383.8 	13
	Taurean Green 		Florida 	350.4 	39
	Arron Afflalo 		UCLA 		336.1 	32
	Ramon Sessions 		Nevada	 	334.7 	37