Every prospect is graded 0–100 on four lenses, then blended into the Board score with an NBA-style, upside-led weighting (Upside 35% · Translatability 33% · Stock 22% · Readiness 10%).
Translatability — how the game projects to the next level: size for position, athletic tools, shooting touch (3P% + FT%), defensive playmaking, scoring efficiency (TS%), and ball security.
Readiness — how NBA-ready right now: current production and role, efficiency at volume, college experience, polish, and the level he did it against.
Upside — ceiling: youth, athletic tools, length and defensive playmaking, scouting-grade ceiling, and per-minute flashes.
Stock (Draftability) — the market read: scouting grade, production, usage (how much of the offence runs through him), translatable skill, and level of competition (conference + team quality).
Athletic tools — there is no combine data in college basketball, so athleticism is read from the box score: how often he gets to the free-throw line (driving, not settling for jumpers), offensive rebounds (second jumps) and blocks + steals (length and quickness), each per minute and ranked against every other player at his position. Blocks and steals carry the most weight because they are the one marker a player cannot pad simply by being the one allowed to shoot. It is why a ground-bound shooter and an explosive wing with the same scoring line no longer rank alike.
Empty calories — volume is only worth what it is scored at. When a player's share of the offence runs well ahead of his efficiency, he is scoring because he is the one allowed to shoot rather than because he is good at it, and the board docks him for it. This is the profile NBA teams discount hardest: the leading scorer on a bad team whose numbers do not survive a closer look.
Level of competition — his conference and how good his own team is. A conference label on its own treats the 77th-ranked team in the country like Duke because they share a league, so the site's own team ranking is blended in: the same 15 points a night mean less against a softer slate with weaker teammates drawing the defence.
Shooting, volume-gated — a jump shot only counts if he takes them. A 6-2 guard attempting one three a game has no NBA shot whatever his percentage is, and 40% on half an attempt a night is noise, so the percentage is faded toward a floor until the volume makes it believable — and the volume itself is credited, because the league buys range it can count on.
Opportunity — a projected line of three minutes a night is not evidence. Per-minute rates off a tiny role used to float deep-bench players up the board, so what the college season says about a player is faded out below a real rotation role.
Age — the NBA drafts runway, so value fades from about 19.5 onward and a redshirt year counts against a prospect rather than resetting the clock. A 19-year-old freshman, a 21-year-old redshirt sophomore and a 23-year-old senior are graded on the same production very differently.
Trajectory — "is he getting better?" is one of the biggest questions on a real board, so the change in his grade from one season to the next is scored directly. A riser is worth more than a flat producer with the same line.
Self-creation — the share of his makes he generated himself (Shot Genome), because the league pays for players who can get their own shot rather than only finish someone else's.
Versatility — a listed second position plus real two-way activity: the "can he guard more than one spot" bet teams make on wings.
Real draft boards — on the 2027 board, each player's average pick across current first-round mocks (Yardbarker, SI, CBS, NBA Draft Room) counts for 60% of his rank, our model for 40%. A player left off every mock counts as about pick 55, so a college-production favourite can still reach the first/second-round line, but not the top.
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