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Draft the Analytical Way (Mean)

Everyone knows that Mock Drafts are complete guess work, and to limit that guess work you need to do a ton of research and gather opinions from GMs and possibly watch some of the European basketballers play. Since I do not really have the time for this I decided I was going to use all the people that do this for a living. So I gathered data, I took 11 Mock Drafts throughout the Web and through them all in a Spreadsheet. Will the minds of 11 averaged work better than the mind of one? We will see.

Here are the sites that I used: About.com , CBS.Sportsline , CollegeHoopsNet , DraftExpress , ESPN , FoxSports , HoopsHype , InsideHoops , NBADraft.Net , SI , and Yahoo .

If you want the spreadsheet for some reason email me and I will email it to you.

Draft Order by Mean (Average Slot)

1. Tyrus Thomas ................ 16. Sergio Rodriguez
2. Lamarcus Aldridge ........... 17. Rajon Rondo
3. Andrea Bargnani ............. 18. Saer Sene
4. Adam Morrison ............... 19. Jordan Farmar
5. Brandon Roy ................. 20. Mardy Collins
6. Rudy Gay .............. ..... 21. Maurice Ager
7. Shelden Williams ............ 22. Thabo Sefolosha
8. Marcus Williams ............. 23. Quincy Douby
9. Patrick O'Bryant ............ 24. Shannon Brown
10. Randy Foye ................. 25. Kyle Lowry
11. JJ Redick .................. 26. Shawne Williams
12. Cedric Simmons ............. 27. Alexander Johnson
13. Rodney Carney .............. 28. Oleksiy Pecherov
14. Ronnie Brewer .............. 29. Guillermo Diaz
15. Hilton Armstrong ........... 30. Josh Boone

How Calculated: Each player was given a point for the draft position they were given in each mock draft. If the player was not listed in the first round for a particular mock draft they were given a value of 35. All of the values were then averaged, and the order was selected on the basis of lowest to highest in the top 30.

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