T-Mac's Pre-Draft Power Rankings

[Tracy McGrady]

As Dynasty 7 is firing on all cylinders to get the draft started, I have had the privilege to watch in some of the workouts around the league. In addition to our own AND1 Assassins's workout games, there were a few players that caught my eye.

Here are my personal opinions of the best available draftees at their own respective positions. Again, this is not based on anything other than how they have played in their draft workouts. There have been some monster games and some of the positions are stacked, but without further ado, here are my power rankings!

#1 Point Guard King (Earl Simmons)
- Inside: C+
- Outside: D
- Handling: A-
- Defense: C
- Rebounding: D
- Potential: B
- Workout Game #1: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/67/s1-draft-workout-king-nike
- Workout Game #2: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/83/draft-workout-king-jordan-brand
- Note: 55 points and 9 steals in two games.

#1 Shooting Guard Batman (Clyde Drexler)
- Inside: B-
- Outside: A
- Handling: C
- Defense: F+
- Rebounding: D+
- Potential: B
- Workout Game #1: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/56/draft-workout-batman-jordan-brand
- Workout Game #2: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/74/s1-draft-workout-batman-and1
- Note: 2 Wins with 2 Game MVPs.

#1 Small Forward Grandmama (Walt Frazier)
- Inside: B+
- Outside: A-
- Handling: D+
- Defense: F-
- Rebounding: B
- Potential: B
- Workout Game #1: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/88/s1-draft-workout-grandmama-and1
- Note: 41 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists in 42 minutes.

#1 Power Forward Terminal Velocity (World Wide Wes)
- Inside: A-
- Outside: D-
- Handling: F
- Defense: C-
- Rebounding: A-
- Potential: C
- Workout Game #1: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/104/draft-workout-terminal-velocity-ning
- Workout Game #2: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/108/draft-workout-terminal-velocity-adidas
- Workout Game #3: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/113/draft-workout-terminal-velocity-and1
- Note: 3 games with 40+ points.

#1 Center The Big Dipper (Walt Frazier)
- Inside: B+
- Outside: F
- Handling: F
- Defense: C
- Rebounding: A-
- Potential: B
- Workout Game #1: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/87/draft-workout-big-dipper-and1
- Note: 42 points and 21 rebounds.

Honorable Mentions: Jumbo (Corliss Williamson), Flash (Special Default), Chris1 (Tracy McGrady)

[Walt Frazier]

Check it out people, how about a few more workouts for my guys?!

[Clyde Drexler]

Hard to choose who to draft, too many great players to pick from.

[Tracy McGrady]

Apr 23, 2014 2:19:46 GMT Walt Frazier said:

Check it out people, how about a few more workouts for my guys?!

They definitely deserve an extra look!

Apr 23, 2014 2:56:26 GMT Clyde Drexler said:

Hard to choose who to draft, too many great players to pick from.

Yeah there are a few players I have my eye on

[Walt Frazier]

Apr 23, 2014 1:33:21 GMT Tracy McGrady said:

As Dynasty 7 is firing on all cylinders to get the draft started, I have had the privilege to watch in some of the workouts around the league. In addition to our own AND1 Assassins's workout games, there were a few players that caught my eye.

Here are my personal opinions of the best available draftees at their own respective positions. Again, this is not based on anything other than how they have played in their draft workouts. There have been some monster games and some of the positions are stacked, but without further ado, here are my power rankings!

#1 Point Guard King (Earl Simmons)
- Inside: C+
- Outside: D
- Handling: A-
- Defense: C
- Rebounding: D
- Potential: B
- Workout Game #1: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/67/s1-draft-workout-king-nike
- Workout Game #2: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/83/draft-workout-king-jordan-brand
- Note: 55 points and 9 steals in two games.

#1 Shooting Guard Batman (Clyde Drexler)
- Inside: B-
- Outside: A
- Handling: C
- Defense: F+
- Rebounding: D+
- Potential: B
- Workout Game #1: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/56/draft-workout-batman-jordan-brand
- Workout Game #2: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/74/s1-draft-workout-batman-and1
- Note: 2 Wins with 2 Game MVPs.

#1 Small Forward Grandmama (Walt Frazier)
- Inside: B+
- Outside: A-
- Handling: D+
- Defense: F-
- Rebounding: B
- Potential: B
- Workout Game #1: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/88/s1-draft-workout-grandmama-and1
- Note: 41 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists in 42 minutes.

#1 Power Forward Terminal Velocity (World Wide Wes)
- Inside: A-
- Outside: D-
- Handling: F
- Defense: C-
- Rebounding: A-
- Potential: C
- Workout Game #1: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/104/draft-workout-terminal-velocity-ning
- Workout Game #2: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/108/draft-workout-terminal-velocity-adidas
- Workout Game #3: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/113/draft-workout-terminal-velocity-and1
- Note: 3 games with 40+ points.

#1 Center The Big Dipper (Walt Frazier)
- Inside: B+
- Outside: F
- Handling: F
- Defense: C
- Rebounding: A-
- Potential: B
- Workout Game #1: dynasty7even.proboards.com/thread/87/draft-workout-big-dipper-and1
- Note: 42 points and 21 rebounds.

Honorable Mentions: Jumbo (Corliss Williamson), Flash (Special Default), Chris1 (Tracy McGrady)

Add my first grade on the media committee, I am going to give this article a 4.

It has solid writing, pictures, and good content. While the actual writing is not that long, he clearly had to put in some work and filled out a lot of forum space here. Also comparing to the other articles that received 3's it is clearly a bit better and more fleshed out.

Nice work TMac

[Danny Longley]

I'd stay with a 3. I can get with most of Walt's reasoning though I personally have a problem with rating lists over your typical articles.

If I were to get a little riffing on each guy - even if only just based on their stats - I would have easily thrown in a 4 or 5, but lack thereof makes it hard for me to say that this is clearly better than the previous articles.

[Tracy McGrady]

Walt and Danny, in my old leagues the first grade posted became the grade for the topic. Not sure if you guys can come up with a better way between the two of you. Let me know if you! Until then we will go to the "first grade posted" rule.

[Walt Frazier]

Apr 24, 2014 2:49:02 GMT Danny Longley said:

I'd stay with a 3. I can get with most of Walt's reasoning though I personally have a problem with rating lists over your typical articles.

If I were to get a little riffing on each guy - even if only just based on their stats - I would have easily thrown in a 4 or 5, but lack thereof makes it hard for me to say that this is clearly better than the previous articles.

I could have been a little generous, but I was assuming that TMac not only looked at these 5 players, but all of the players and then chose his top one from each position. As well as the games played so far. That sounds like an arduous task to me and shows a lot of dedication. But generally I would agree that a list has the potential to be less impressive than actual written articles.

[Danny Longley]

Regarding a system - I personally lean towards averaging, so that both our opinions come into play. Having a third guy would be nice though, so that we don't default to rounding up.

[Tracy McGrady]

Yeah I was thinking about averaging too, I will add another slot for the Media Committee just in case. What happens if the vote is 3-4-4?

[Walt Frazier]

Apr 24, 2014 14:49:00 GMT Danny Longley said:

Regarding a system - I personally lean towards averaging, so that both our opinions come into play. Having a third guy would be nice though, so that we don't default to rounding up.

Thinking the same thing Danny.

[Walt Frazier]

Apr 24, 2014 14:50:41 GMT Tracy McGrady said:

Yeah I was thinking about averaging too, I will add another slot for the Media Committee just in case. What happens if the vote is 3-4-4?

3+4+4 = 11, divided by 3 = 3.67 = 4

Not being a jerk, I'm just saying it's simple, you just average it, that's the point of having more opinions on the article.  

[Tracy McGrady]

Apr 24, 2014 15:01:29 GMT Walt Frazier said:

Apr 24, 2014 14:50:41 GMT Tracy McGrady said:

Yeah I was thinking about averaging too, I will add another slot for the Media Committee just in case. What happens if the vote is 3-4-4?

3+4+4 = 11, divided by 3 = 3.67 = 4

Not being a jerk, I'm just saying it's simple, you just average it, that's the point of having more opinions on the article.  

Okay that's what I thought too, but Danny said something about avoiding averaging so I got confused.