Consensus Big Board

Roughly every week I go through the major draft websites I follow and track the rankings of prospects on their big boards. I do not track mock drafts as one website may have a prospect listed in their 2010 mock, while another has them listed in their 2011 mock and then how is one supposed to determine how to rank such a prospect for the 2010 NBA Draft when we, at this point, do not know for sure who is declaring this year? As such, I track the big boards of those websites, as they do not (or should not) segregate prospects based on when they think they will declare, but rather they rank them on how they feel their current talent and potential will translate to the NBA level.

I normally include nbadraft.net in these rankings, but as they haven't updated their big board since the middle of January, I have excluded them as it distorts the current state of the general consensus. Also, in these posts I will only go out to the top-25, however I plan on uploading the spreadsheet I keep with has the rankings of all the prospects I track and how the rankings have changed throughout the year.

Enough of the discussion, here are the updated average rankings of players according to the big boards (DX, nba-draft.com, ESPN, and yours truly - respectively):

1. John Wall - Fr. PG (1,1,1,1):
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2. Evan Turner - Jr. SG/SF (2,2,2,2):
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3. DeMarcus Cousins - Fr. PF/C (3,3,4,4):
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4. Derrick Favors - Fr. PF/C (4,4,3,3):
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5. Wesley Johnson - Jr. SF (8,5,5,5):
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6. Ed Davis - So. PF (7,8,7,6):
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7. Al-Farouq Aminu - So. F (5,6,6,12):
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8. Cole Aldrich - Jr. C (6,7,8,8):
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9. Greg Monroe - So. PF/C (9,9,9,7):
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10. Hassan Whiteside - Fr. PF/C (18,10,10,9):
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11. Donatas Motiejunas - 19yrs PF/C (12,11,12,15):
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12. Jan Vesely - 19yrs F (11,15,11,14):
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13. Patrick Patterson - Jr. PF (10,13,13,18):
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14. Xavier Henry - Fr. SG/SF (14,14,18,10):
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15. Ekpe Udoh - Jr. PF/C (13,16,15,13):
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16. James Anderson - Sr. SG/SF (20,12,17,19):
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17. Stanley Robinson - Sr. F (16,17,20,31):
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18. Paul George - So. SG/SF (22,25,24,17):
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19. Larry Sanders - Jr. PF/C (19,24,22,24):
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20. Quincy Pondexter - Sr. SF (24,22,16,30):
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21. Elias Harris - Fr. F (23,20,26,25):
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22. Solomon Alabi - So. C (17,21,21,36):
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23. Eric Bledsoe - Fr. G (35,19,14,29):
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24. Avery Bradley - Fr. G (36,18,19,28):
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25. John Henson - Fr. F (25,28,34,16):
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