2009 NBA Projected Statistics

Many people do their draft analyses using last years statistics. They know the players won't perform exactly the same this year, but last year's stats are usually the best option available for pasting into spreadsheets.

Anyway, what fantasy gurus should really base their draft strategies on is this upcoming year's stats! We don't know what those will be, of course, but John Hollinger at ESPN has projected them for every NBA player here: http://games.espn.go.com/fba/tools/projections?display=alt

If you checked out the ESPN link, you might be thinking, well, this is nice, but this isn't in a good format, how do I get this nicely into excel? Well, I did that for you and I am sharing the spreadsheet as a google document which you can get here (and be sure to thank ESPN and John Hollinger): http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pJpMiQ2orc3QVsbYa_lSAGA

Enjoy!

By the way, don't draft your players based on "Hollinger's Rank". That would be a bad idea, especially if you are participating in a league based on categories like Yahoo's fantasy basketball leagues. If you are wondering why you should not draft based on the rank alone, please read my fantasy basketball posts from September 2007.