Where our analysts split, and who the projections side with
Jeremiah Fears, Damian Lillard, Joel Embiid and Kawhi Leonard divide our analyst panel by 50 places or more, and our projections settle each argument a different way.
By James · 3 min read
Jeremiah FearsJoel EmbiidKawhi LeonardPhotos: NBAProOur consensus rankings blend our analysts' boards into one, which is useful precisely because it smooths out the opinions of any one person. The cost of averaging is that it hides the disagreements, and the disagreements are where a draft is decided, because a player one analyst has in the fourth round and another has undrafted is a player whose price in your league could land anywhere.
- Jeremiah Fears NOP95thvs 129th
- Joel Embiid PHI70thvs 46th
- Kawhi Leonard TOR27thvs 24th
- Damian Lillard POR82ndvs 71st
- Coby White CHA84thvs 72nd
- Donovan Clingan POR60thvs 57th
We went through every board on the panel and pulled out the players with the widest range, then put our projections beside them as a tiebreaker. The projections are not an analyst, they are a model of what each player produces over the season, including the games he is expected to miss, and they settle these arguments in different directions.
Every player in this story is on the fantasy basketball rankings and the 2026-27 projections, and the NBA depth charts show where each one stands in his team’s rotation tonight.
